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    US Congress looks to expand MCC mandate to include more countries

    The U.S. Congress is making progress on legislation that would allow the Millennium Challenge Corporation to work in upper-middle-income countries, expanding the number of nations where it can work.

    By Adva Saldinger // 05 May 2023

    The Millennium Challenge Corporation, the United States aid agency that awards large grants to improve economic growth in nations with records of good governance, is one step closer to expanding the number of countries it can help.

    This week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill, the Millennium Challenge Corporation Candidate Country Reform Act, that would allow MCC to potentially work in all countries that qualify for lending from the World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which supports middle-income nations.

    Lawmakers in the House of Representatives this week introduced their version of the bill. The House passed a similar bill last year, but it failed to get through the Senate before the end of the Congress, and so had to be reintroduced.

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      Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.

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