Sec. 208. Study on subnational compacts
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, acting through the Chief Executive Officer, shall submit a study to the appropriate congressional committees that assesses the feasibility and desirability of developing partnerships at the subnational level within candidate countries that would be complementary to, and, as applicable, concurrent with, any Millennium Challenge Corporation national-level or regional investments. The study required under subsection
(a)shall examine— the extent to which targeting investments at the subnational level might provide new opportunities for reducing poverty through economic growth; the extent to which traditional approaches to defining poverty may not adequately capture the nature of poverty within a country; the types of subnational entities that might be appropriate partners for subnational Millennium Challenge Corporation compacts; how candidates for subnational partners might best be identified; and what role each national government should play in creating or implementing a subnational partnership. In this subsection, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate ; the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate ; the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives .