U.S. Rushes Aid To Pakistan To Fight Taliban
WASHINGTON - Even as the Pakistani government plays down the American role in its military operations in Taliban-controlled areas along the border wit...
WASHINGTON - Even as the Pakistani government plays down the American role in its military operations in Taliban-controlled areas along the border wit...
Noam Unger | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
Obama's speech was a call for a new spirit of global partnership, emphasizing that real progress in lifting millions out of poverty and countering transnational threats cannot be made by governments alone.
Dr. Seth Berkley | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
Advance Market Commitment (AMC) is a new market-based financing mechanism that accelerates the delivery of life-saving vaccines for children worldwide.
Saad Khan | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
India is not a threat to Pakistan, Islamic militancy is. If Pakistan's leaders are still not able to overcome their 'infatuation' with India, then it could prove disastrous for regional stability.
William Easterly | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment
Can we note the irony of ads using Hollywood women as sex objects and seeing African women as the passive recipients of aid chivalry, when one of the objectives of this aid is gender equality?
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The United States has transferred $200 million to the Palestinian government to help ease a growing budget deficit, U.S. S...
Cynthia Gordy | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
Amid the anticipated media narrative, of Ghana excitedly welcoming the first Black President on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, many are also wondering about the substance.
Catholic Relief Services | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
President Obama should fulfill the promise of candidate Obama by engaging with the people of Africa and doubling foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012.
Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
It is the very success of hundreds of health programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that has produced the surge in demand for fresh grants.
William Easterly | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
The point of the Millennium Development Goals campaign was that it precisely defined success and failure using specific goals. So on its own terms, it is a failure.
World Vision | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
While non-G8 donors are responsible for a quarter of the total African aid increase since 2005, and are delivering on their side of the deal, aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen.
David Beckmann | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
Our current foreign aid system continues to mandate that the large majority of U.S. food aid be from U.S.-grown commodities that are sourced and shipped from the U.S. This must change.
Donald Ndahiro | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
The project has achieved its goal of sustainably reducing poverty in the community, and on that foundation of stability, the community has begun real prosperity-creation projects.
Magatte Wade | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Poverty in Africa will be eliminated not by aid, but by entrepreneurial job creation, by real entrepreneurs creating scalable enterprises that will ultimately create millions of jobs.
Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
The son of the founder of the Peace Corps leading our march was one of the most powerful acts of political symbolism I have ever seen.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Conditions in Afghanistan are acutely compartmentalized. Reports from one village can be bright and optimistic while another locale is rife with atrocities towards women and girls.
Washington Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is on his first official visit in Washington this week with a decidedly difficult sales pi...
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations' target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries.
David Beckmann | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
In a world where poverty anywhere threatens prosperity everywhere, foreign assistance is a vital tool for translating our moral beliefs into practical actions.
Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Congressional restrictions on U.S. food aid raise the costs of delivering it by as much as a third and delay it reaching hungry people by up to 100 days.
Kristi York Wooten | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Go ahead and call me a misguided Westerner if you like, or even a bleeding heart; I much prefer those titles to "bystander" -- innocent or not.
David Beckmann | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
U.S. foreign assistance has worked miracles around the globe, but is in dire need of an overhaul.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
The MCC has been praised as an innovative instrument of foreign aid and is an interesting experiment in trying to keep money out of the hands of gangsters.
William Easterly | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
Sachs is an inspirational and hard-working intellectual, just one whose ideas on Africa happen to be sometimes totally wrong, and other times only seriously wrong.
Rani Singh | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
Problems in Pakistan are so widespread and endemic that I don't think that things can get too much better, however much money is pledged in aid.
nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.29.2009 | World