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1The 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. 

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. 

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Dated: April 4, 2012. 

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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC 12–04] 

Report on Countries That Are 

Candidates for Millennium Challenge 

Account Eligibility in Fiscal Year 2012 

and Countries That Would Be 

Candidates but for Legal Prohibitions 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 608(d) of the 

Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 (the 

‘‘Act’’) requires the Millennium 

Challenge Corporation to publish a 

report that identifies countries that are 

‘‘candidate countries’’ for Millennium 

Challenge Account assistance during FY 

2012. 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’’).1 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. 

The report is set forth in full below and 

updates the report published November 

8, 2011 (76 FR 69291). 

Dated: April 3, 2012. 

Henry C. Pitney, 

Acting 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 

assistance under part I of the Foreign 

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. 


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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 statute is identified. 

Candidate Countries: Low Income Category 

Afghanistan* Liberia 

Bangladesh Malawi 

Benin Mali 

Bhutan Mauritania 

Bolivia Micronesia 

Burkina Faso Moldova 

Burundi Mongolia 

Cambodia* Mozambique 

Cameroon* Nepal 

Central African 

Republic* 

Nicaragua* 

Chad* Niger* 

Comoros Nigeria 

Coˆte D’Ivoire* Pakistan 

Congo, Democratic 

Republic of* 

Papua New Guinea 

Congo, Republic of 

the 

Philippines 

Djibouti Rwanda 

Egypt, Arab 

Republic* 

Sao Tome and 

Principe 

Ethiopia* Senegal 

Gambia, The Sierra Leone 

Georgia Solomon Islands 

Ghana Somalia* 

Guatemala Sri Lanka 

Guinea* Swaziland* 

Guinea-Bissau* Tajikistan* 

Haiti Tanzania 

Honduras Timor-Leste 

India Togo 

Indonesia Tuvalu 

Iraq Uganda 

Kenya Vanuatu 

Kiribati Vietnam 

Kyrgyz Republic* Yemen* 

Lao PDR Zambia 

Lesotho 

Candidate Countries: Lower Middle Income 

Category 

Angola* Marshall Islands 

Armenia Morocco 

Belize Paraguay 

Cape Verde Samoa 

El Salvador Tonga 

Guyana Turkmenistan* 

Kosovo Ukraine 

* Countries are currently prohibited from assistance due to Section 7031 of the SFOAA, 

which prohibits assistance to governments 

where there is a lack of financial management 

and budget transparency. However, with minor 

exception, they are expected to receive waivers. Where waivers are granted, these countries will be considered candidate countries for 

FY 2012. 

Countries That Would Be Candidate 

Countries but for Legal Prohibitions 

That Prohibit Assistance 

Countries that would be considered 

candidate countries for FY 2012, but are 

ineligible to receive United States 

economic assistance under part I of the 

Foreign Assistance Act by reason of the 

application of any provision of the 

Foreign Assistance Act or any other 

provision of law are listed below. As 

noted above, this list is based on legal 

prohibitions against economic 

assistance that apply as of December 

2011. 

Prohibited Countries: Low Income 

Category 

Burma is subject to numerous 

restrictions, including but not limited to 

section 570 of the FY 1997 Foreign 

Operations, Export Financing, and 

Related Programs Appropriations Act 

(Pub. L. 104–208), which prohibits 

assistance to the government of Burma 

until it makes measurable and 

substantial progress in improving 

human rights practices and 

implementing democratic government, 

and due to its status as a major drugtransit or major illicit drug producing 

country for FY 2012 (Presidential 

Determination No. 2011–16 (9/15/ 

2011).). 

Eritrea is subject to restrictions due to 

its status as a Tier III country under the 

Trafficking Victims Protection Act, as 

amended, 22 U.S.C. section 7101 et seq. 

Madagascar is subject to section 7008 

of the SFOAA, which prohibits 

assistance to the government of a 

country whose duly elected head of 

government is deposed by military coup 

or decree and also section 7031(b) 

regarding budget transparency. 

North Korea is subject to numerous 

restrictions, including section 7007 of 

the SFOAA which prohibits any direct 

assistance to the government. 

Sudan is subject to numerous 

restrictions, including but not limited to 

section 620A of the Foreign Assistance 

Act which prohibits assistance to 

governments supporting international 

terrorism, section 7012 of the SFOAA 

and section 620(q) of the Foreign 

Assistance Act, both of which prohibit 

assistance to countries in default in 

payment to the U.S. in certain 

circumstances, section 7008 of the 

SFOAA, which prohibits assistance to 

the government of a country whose duly 

elected head of government is deposed 

by military coup or decree, and section 

7043(f). 

Syria is subject to numerous 

restrictions, including but not limited to 

620A of the Foreign Assistance Act 

which prohibits assistance to 

governments supporting international 

terrorism, section 7007 of the SFOAA 

which prohibits direct assistance, and 

section 7012 of the SFOAA and section 

620(q) of the Foreign Assistance Act, 

both of which prohibit assistance to 

countries in default in payment to the 

U.S. in certain circumstances. 

Uzbekistan’s central government is 

subject to section 7076(a) of the FY 2009 

SFOAA, which is carried forward by 

section 7063 of the FY 2012 SFOAA. 

This may be waived for six months at 

a time by the Secretary of State. The 

restriction limits the provision of funds 

(other than expanded international 

military education and training funds). 

Zimbabwe is subject to several 

restrictions, including section 7043(j)(2) 

which prohibits assistance (except for 

macroeconomic growth assistance) to 

the central government of Zimbabwe, 

unless the Secretary of State determines 

and reports to Congress that the rule of 

law has been restored in Zimbabwe. 

Prohibited Countries: Lower Middle 

Income Category 

Fiji is subject to section 7008 of the 

SFOAA, which prohibits assistance to 

the government of a country whose duly 

elected head of government is deposed 

by military coup or decree. 

Countries identified above as 

candidate countries, as well as countries 

that would be considered candidate 

countries but for the applicability of 

legal provisions that prohibit U.S. 

economic assistance, may be the subject 

of future statutory restrictions or 

determinations, or changed country 

circumstances, that affect their legal 

eligibility for assistance under part I of 

the Foreign Assistance Act by reason of 

application of the Foreign Assistance 

Act or any other provision of law for FY 

2012. 

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