Three pilot countries were considered in the original MP study Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. They were chosen based on their high poverty rates, and insufficient progress towards MDGs, but
with relatively good governance. Of these, we selected Ghana as the pilot country for our study because of its more extensive and available data base. We then customized the general structure of Fig. 1 to represent Ghana’s most important development mechanisms. The following sections outline the key assumptions underlying T21-MDG-Ghana, present our analysis of the resulting MDG interventions, and provide results of the calibration and validation processes.