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Foreign Aid Reform

Obama's Global Development Legacy

Jeremy Konyndyk | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Read More: The Road Forward, Foreign Aid, Obama Global Development, Global Development, Obama Foreign Aid, Obama Second Term, U.S. Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Assistance Act, Obama Aid Reform, U.S. Development Policy, Aid Reform, Obama Development Policy, Obama Foreign Aid Reform, Obama Aid, Humanitarian Aid, US Development Policy, Foreign Aid Reform, Obama Humanitarian Aid, US Humanitarian Aid, Politics News
Jeremy Konyndyk

President Obama has been a strong supporter of foreign aid throughout his first term, but unlike his predecessor, he has yet to translate his support into an enduring legacy on global development. As he enters his second term, the president should take several steps to cement that legacy.

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Don't Cut Foreign Aid -- It's Working

Raymond C. Offenheiser | Posted 03.17.2013 | Impact
Read More: US Foreign Assistance, Federal Budget Deficit, Foreign Aid Reform, Budget Cuts, Federal Budget, US Foreign Aid, Impact News
Raymond C. Offenheiser

Today in Washington, Oxfam is launching an ad campaign to remind members of Congress that "job creators" and "venture capitalists" don't always wear fancy suits or have well-heeled lobbyists.

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College Of William And Mary To Help Track Where Foreign Aid Goes

AP | BROCK VERGAKIS | Posted 11.09.2012 | College
Read More: Foreign Aid, College of William and Mary, The College of William and Mary, Foreign Aid Reform, Tracking Foreign Aid, US Foreign Aid, College News

NORFOLK, Va. -- The College of William and Mary in Virginia has been awarded $25 million to lead a federal project that would let the U.S. government ...

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Flea-Markets and Foreign Aid: Things Aren't Always What They Seem

Rachel Cook | Posted 03.18.2012 | World
Read More: Foreign Aid, Budget, Military Spending, West Virginia, Ohio, Aid, Foreign Aid Budget, US Foreign Aid, Foreign Aid Reform, Foreign Aid Spending, World News
Rachel Cook

In 2010, the United States spent 20 percent of its budget on Defense and Security, as opposed to less than 1 percent on non-security related international assistance. This 1 percent is less than half of the foreign aid budget of the 1980s, and even less of earlier decades. What's the deal?

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Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century

Sarah Trister | Posted 11.08.2011 | Politics
Read More: US Foreign Policy, Congress, Budget Cuts, Foreign Assistance, Foreign Aid, Rethinking US Foreign Policy, US Foreign Aid, Howard Berman, Rethinking US Foreign Assistance, US Foreign Assistance, Foreign Aid Reform, Politics News
Sarah Trister

Howard Berman's bill is the first serious, comprehensive attempt at rewriting the foreign assistance act to make it appropriate for the 21st century.

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A New Voice for Women in U.S. Aid

Ritu Sharma | Posted 07.05.2011 | World
Read More: Women's Empowerment, Usaid, Women's Rights, Women, Gender Equality, World Hunger, US Aid, World Poverty, Foreign Aid Reform, Gender, World News
Ritu Sharma

Women are the majority of the more than one billion people living on just a dollar a day, and account for 6 out of 10 of the world's hungry. Despite this, they very often get left out of assistance programs.

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Is Foreign Aid Too Fat?

Serra Sippel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Reproductive Health, Women's Rights, Foreign Aid, Global Health, Foreign Aid Reform, Women's Health, Foreign Policy, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Howard Berman, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Budget Cuts, Politics News
Serra Sippel

A Democrat says we have to make foreign aid more efficient. A Republican says she will trim the "fat" in existing aid programs. Depending on how you define "fat," we may have a bi-partisan consensus on our hands.

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Clinton Seeks Revamp Of Foreign Aid

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Hillary Clinton, Usaid, Foreign Aid, State Department, State Department Reform, Foreign Aid Reform, Impact News

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to reorganize the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development to...

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Time to Rebrand Haiti's Tent Cities as Tomas Approaches

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Hurricane, Ocha, Tent Cities, Camp Corail, Haiti, Idp, Earthquake, Cholera, Foreign Aid Reform, Un, Tomas, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Haiti's Potemkin village, the Camp Corail-Cesselesse relocation camp, is not safe. With the approach of Tomas, which is morphing daily from tropical s...

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Obama's New Plan to Fight Poverty Gets the Purpose Right

Paul O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Foreign Aid, US Global Development Policy, Mdgs, Un Millennium Development Goals, President Obama, Foreign Aid Reform, Oxfam America, World News
Paul O'Brien

President Obama used the gathering of world leaders in New York last week to announce the first-ever US Policy on Global Development, promising that, ...

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What Real Foreign Aid Reform Means

David Beckmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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David Beckmann

At stake is America's ability to effectively address the global challenges of the 21st century. And the timing is important: in just two months, the eyes of the world will be on the Millennium Development Goals Summit.

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Foreign Aid Reform: Spaghetti, Leaks and Hope

Carol Peasley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Usaid, Foreign Aid, International Development, US Foreign Aid, Foreign Aid Reform, Development, National Security Council, State Department, Politics News
Carol Peasley

For those who care about international development and global poverty reduction, for those who want to see the United States government reestablish it...

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Foreign Aid Reform: The Road Ahead

Carol Peasley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Foreign Aid, U.S. Agency for International Development, Sustainable Development, Foreign Aid Reform, Development, Global Health Initiative, Usaid, International, Foreign Policy, Home News
Carol Peasley

Over the past two years, experts on global development have come to a consensus that the current system for managing U.S. foreign aid is outdated, is ...

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A Better Week for Haiti - And With These Reforms, a Far Better Future

Charles MacCormack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Foreign Aid, Haiti Poverty, Haiti Earthquake, Foreign Aid Reform, Save the Children, Obama Foreign Policy, Haiti Relief Efforts, Home News
Charles MacCormack

The renewal in Haiti could outshine even the vast improvements to health, education, and housing we've seen in places like Indonesia following the 2004 tsunami.

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