MCC Qualifies Liberia as Candidate Country

Liberia, along with 86 other countries, has been qualified by the MCC as candidate countries.

 

The Candidate Country  Report presented to the US Congress is 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 assistance through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) 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.

 

The countries that are “candidate countries” for FY 2026 are based on their per capita income levels and their eligibility to receive assistance under the U.S. law and countries that would be candidate countries but for specified legal prohibitions on assistance (section 608(a) of the Act).

Some of the countries qualified as candidate countries include: Liberia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Togo, South Africa, Angola, Benin, and Sierra Leone, among others.

 

However, some countries that were considered ineligible to receive US economic assistance include: Burkina Faso, Burma, Ghana, Eritrea, Ghana, Mali, Guinea, etc.