The Millennium Village Project (MVP) was introduced in 2004 as a result of the realization that Sub-Saharan Africa was unlikely to meet the MDGs by 2015. The underlying hypothesis of the Millennium Villages2 is that the multifaceted nature of poverty in rural Africa can be overcome through targeted public sector investments to raise rural productivity, which would increases private savings and investments. The overall objective of this research is to assess the effectiveness of the ‘bigpush’ interventions under the MVP in alleviating rural poverty and also meeting the other MDGs.