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The drumbeat for transparent and better development data has been steadily growing over the last few years. This agenda touches on a broad range of issues, such as aid transparency, open budgets, citizen feedback loops, and development data collection and dissemination.
On Tuesday, MCC signed a $277 million compact with El Salvador. It’s been a long road to the finish line for El Salvador with over a year-long wait between compact approval and signing (most countries sign within a month of approval).
In December, MCC’s Board of Directors will meet to determine which countries will be eligible for FY2015 funding. While the agency’s annual country scorecards won’t be ready for a few months, updated corruption and democracy data are available now.