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act or in an amendment to the Act in order for these 

changes to continue beyond FY 2012. 

2The changes to the Act enacted in the 

Appropriations Act only apply to the FY 2012 

selection process. The relevant language would 

need to be included in next year’s appropriations 

act or in an amendment to the Act in order for these 

changes to continue beyond FY 2012. 

compact or threshold program eligibility 

decisions made at the December 2011 

MCC Board meeting, it does alter the 

income classification of some candidate 

countries. As such, it is necessary for 

MCC to revise its FY 2012 Candidate 

Country Report. This revised report 

incorporates the new definitions and the 

subsequent reclassification of countries. 

The report is set forth in full below and 

updates the report published November 

8, 2011 (76 FR 69291). 

Dated: March 26, 2012. 

Melvin F. Williams, Jr., 

VP/General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, 

Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

Report on Countries That Are 

Candidates for Millennium Challenge 

Account Eligibility for Fiscal Year 2012 

and Countries That Would Be 

Candidates but for Legal Prohibitions 

Summary 

This report to Congress is provided in 

accordance with section 608(a) of the 

Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, as 

amended, 22 U.S.C. 7701, 7707(a) (the 

‘‘Act’’). The Act authorizes the 

provision of Millennium Challenge 

Account (MCA) assistance for countries 

that enter into a Millennium Challenge 

Compact with the United States to 

support policies and programs that 

advance the progress of such countries 

to achieve lasting economic growth and 

poverty reduction. The Act requires the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

(MCC) to take a number of steps in 

selecting countries with which MCC 

will seek to enter into a compact, 

including (a) determining the countries 

that will be eligible for MCA assistance 

for fiscal year 2012 (FY 2012) based on 

a country’s demonstrated commitment 

to (i) just and democratic governance, 

(ii) economic freedom, and (iii) 

investments in its people; and (b) 

considering the opportunity to reduce 

poverty and generate economic growth 

in the country. These steps include the 

submission of reports to the 

congressional committees specified in 

the Act and the publication of notices in 

the Federal Register that identify: 

The countries that are ‘‘candidate 

countries’’ for MCA assistance for FY 2012 

based on their per capita income levels and 

their eligibility to receive assistance under 

U.S. law and countries that would be 

candidate countries but for specified legal 

prohibitions on assistance (section 608(a) of 

the Act); 

The criteria and methodology that the MCC 

Board of Directors (Board) will use to 

measure and evaluate the relative policy 

performance of the ‘‘candidate countries’’ 

consistent with the requirements of 

subsections (a) and (b) of section 607 of the 

Act in order to determine ‘‘MCA eligible 

countries’’ from among the ‘‘candidate 

countries’’ (section 608(b) of the Act); and 

The list of countries determined by the 

Board to be ‘‘MCA eligible countries’’ for FY 

2012, identification of such countries with 

which the Board will seek to enter into 

compacts, and a justification for such 

eligibility determination and selection for 

compact negotiation (section 608(d) of the 

Act). 

This report is the first of three 

required reports listed above. This 

report was initially published in 

September 2011. In December 2011, 

Congress enacted changes in MCC’s FY 

2012 appropriation that redefined 

candidate countries for FY 2012 as part 

of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2012 (Pub. L. 112–74) (the 

‘‘Appropriations Act’’).2 While this does 

not affect the compact or threshold 

program eligibility decisions made at 

the December 2011 MCC Board meeting, 

it does alter the income classification of 

some candidate countries. As such, it is 

necessary for MCC to revise its FY 2012 

Candidate Country Report. This revised 

report incorporates the new definitions 

and the subsequent reclassification of 

countries. 

Candidate Countries for FY 2012 

The Act requires the identification of 

all countries that are candidates for 

MCA assistance for FY 2012 and the 

identification of all countries that would 

be candidate countries but for specified 

legal prohibitions on assistance. Due to 

provisions in the Appropriations Act, 

the FY 2012 candidate pool must be 

structured differently than in past years. 

The new provisions define low income 

as the 75 poorest countries and provide 

for gradual graduation from the low 

income to lower middle income 

category. This year’s newly-issued 

candidate list will establish the baseline 

of those countries for purposes of 

determining income levels. The 

provisions of the Appropriations Act 

that supplant Sections 606 (a) and (b) of 

the Act provide that for FY 2012, a 

country shall be a candidate for MCA 

assistance if it: 

Meets one of the following tests: 

Has a per capita income that is not greater 

than the World Bank’s lower middle income 

country threshold for such fiscal year ($3,975 

GNI per capita for FY12); and is among the 

75 lowest per capita income countries, as 

identified by the World Bank; or 

Has a per capita income that is not greater 

than the World Bank’s lower middle income 

country threshold for such fiscal year ($3,975 

GNI per capita for FY12); but is not among 

the 75 lowest per capita income countries as 

identified by the World Bank; 

and 

Is not ineligible to receive U.S. economic 

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Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, (the 

‘‘Foreign Assistance Act’’), by reason of the 

application of the Foreign Assistance Act or 

any other provision of law. 

Pursuant to section 606(c) of the Act, 

the Board identified the following 

countries as candidate countries under 

the Act for FY 2012 at its March 22, 

2012 meeting. In so doing, the Board 

referred to the prohibitions on 

assistance as applied to countries in the 

Department of State, Foreign 

Operations, and Related Programs 

Appropriations Act, 2012 (SFOAA), 

Public Law 112–74, Div. I. All section 

references identified as prohibitions on 

assistance to a given country are taken 

from Title VII of the FY 2012 SFOAA, 

unless another statue is identified. 

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