Millennium Challenge Corporation and Republic of Armenia to Sign $235 Million Millennium Challenge Compact

MCC Chief Executive Officer Ambassador John Danilovich and Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian will also make remarks. The $235.65 million Compact will be signed by Ambassador Danilovich and Armenia’s Minister of Finance and Economy, Vardan Khachatryan.

Armenia’s Millennium Challenge Compact aims to reduce rural poverty through a sustainable increase in the economic performance of the agricultural sector. The Compact consists of two investments: a Rural Road Rehabilitation Project and an Irrigated Agriculture Project. The program will directly impact 75 percent of the rural population and is expected to significantly increase the annual incomes of the rural poor.

The Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government corporation designed to work with some of the poorest countries in the world, is based on the principle that aid is most effective when it reinforces good governance, economic freedom, and investments in people that promote economic growth and elimination of extreme poverty.

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