Foreign Aid

The Sachs-Moyo-Easterly Aid Debate: An Activist's Perspective

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Michael Gerson, Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Africa, William Easterly, ONE Campaign, Dambisa Moyo, Matt Charman, Poverty, World News
Kristi York Wooten

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.

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Convoluted Foreign Aid

David Beckmann | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Gao, Foreign Assistance, Foreign Affairs, Government Accountability Office, US Foreign Aid, World News
David Beckmann

U.S. foreign assistance has worked miracles around the globe, but is in dire need of an overhaul.

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The Millenium's Challenge

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Millenium Challenge Corporation, US Foreign Aid, George W. Bush, Africa, Economic Recovery, Harvard, Barack Obama, World News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

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.

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Geography Lessons: Correcting Sachs on African Economic Development

William Easterly | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Foreign Aid, Africa, Dambisa Moyo, Third World Countries, Latin America, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, HIV/AIDS Africa, Mosquitoes, World News
William Easterly

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.

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I Don't See How I Can Ever Go Back to Swat Valley

Rani Singh | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Rani-Singh, Taliban, Pakistan, Security, Refugees, Swat Valley, Foreign Aid, Pakistan Taliban, World News
Rani Singh

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.

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Aid Ironies

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Foreign Aid, Wealth, Dambisa Moyo, Africa, World News
Jeffrey Sachs

Rich people have an uncanny ability to oppose aid for everybody but themselves.

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The Peace Corps Crisis

Laurence Leamer | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Community Service, Foreign Aid, Peace Corps, Volunteering, Shriver, Service, Kennedy, Volunteers, Developing World, Washington DC, Obama, Development, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

The Peace Corps is a broken bureaucracy. It has lost its way. It is a shell of what it once was. And in the most important moment in Peace Corps history since the Kennedy years, it is unready and unwell.

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The President's 2010 Budget: A Transition to New Priorities

David Beckmann | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House Budget, Foreign Aid, US Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Beckmann

Overall, this budget shows the president's intention to include hungry and poor people in the economic recovery of our country and the world.

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Foreign Aid, Arms Shipped By Same Firms: Report

Inter Press Service | Thalif Deen | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Arms Smuggling, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Colombia, Ngos, Liberia, Arms, Ngo, Arms Smugglers, Arms Dealers, Nato, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Arms Dealer, Advocacy, World News

UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (IPS) - The military conflicts raging across Africa, Asia and Latin America have been significantly influenced by the heavy ...

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Science for Us, but Also for the World

Dr. Seth Berkley | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Usaid, Foreign Aid, Obama Budget, Science Research, Developing Countries, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, AIDS Vaccine, Capacity-Building, Science, Scientific Capacity, Iavi, World News
Dr. Seth Berkley

The Obama administration should extend its fervor for science to its foreign aid policy, putting science and technology at the heart of U.S. assistance to the developing world.

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World AIDS Orphans Day: Advocates Celebrate Our Progress and Challenge the New U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Jennifer Delaney | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Obama Budget, Foreign Aid, Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Global Action for Children, World AIDS Orphans Day, World News
Jennifer Delaney

Today, on World AIDS Orphans Day, we must recognize that there are multiple social and economic costs that follow a society's failure to address the needs of their most vulnerable members -- children.

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Obama's Global Health Plan's Missing the Money

Matthew Kavanagh | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Hillary Clinton, Developing World, Aids, Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama, Africa, Budget, World News
Matthew Kavanagh

Yesterday President Obama announced a new "Global Health Initiative." Should we all be excited?

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The 'How' and 'Why' of Reforming U.S. Foreign Assistance

David Beckmann | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Foreign Assistance Reform Act, World Hunger, Foreign Affairs, House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Foreign Aid, World News
David Beckmann

In a world where poverty anywhere threatens prosperity everywhere, foreign assistance is a vital tool for translating our moral beliefs into practical actions.

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Rajeev Goyal Listens to the Villagers of Nepal

Laurence Leamer | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Peace Corps, Permaculture, Nepal, Kathmandu, Government Assistance, India, Development, Usaid, World News
Laurence Leamer

In terms of the philanthropic world, Krisiko Asha was microscopic in purpose, serving to advance sixteen tiny villages in the remote hills of Nepal, one of the poorest, smallest countries in the world.

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Zimbabwe's New Finance Minister Comes To Washington To Plead Heart-Wrenching Case

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid, Morgan Tsvangarai Zimbabwe, Tendai Biti, US Foreign Aid, Zanu-Pf, Zimbabwe Cholera, Barack Obama, Human Rights, Morgan Tsvangarai, Zimbabwe Violence, Human Rights Watch, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Human Rights, World News
Human Rights Watch

After years of being looted by Mugabe, Zimbabwe is dead broke. More than half the population is surviving on international food aid and unemployment stands at more than 90 percent.

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100 Days, 100 Foreign Policy Achievements

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Foreign Aid, Latin America, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Guantanamo, Mexico, Iran, Iraq, State Department, Barack Obama, National Security, Human Rights, Nuclear Weapons, Financial Crisis, Pirates, Defense Spending, Europe, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Cuba, Torture, World News
Ilan Goldenberg

In 100 days, the Obama administration has taken more than 100 actions that are reshaping American foreign policy, reversing the failures of the Bush administration, and renewing America's standing in the world.

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For Small Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries, Mobile Phones Can Be Path Out of Poverty

Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Mobile Phones, Foreign Aid, Growth, Indonesia, Fiji, g20, Kenya, Economic Development, Telecom, Phones, Cell Phones, World News
Terra Lawson-Remer

Mobile phones are already breaking the economic stranglehold of elites with access to capital, and giving poor entrepreneurs a chance to build their own businesses and be their own bosses.

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The Perils of Intervening in Somalia

Nicole Stremlau | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Al-Shabab, Minnesota, Islamic Courts Union, Somaliland, Somalia, Africa, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Mogadishu, US Foreign Policy, Pirates, Djibouti, Abdullahi Yusuf, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia Pirates, Somali Pirates, World News
Nicole Stremlau

International collaboration and mutual understanding are key, as Somalia's concerns are best addressed from a Somali perspective.

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Calling For US Leadership To Fight Global Health Crises

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Barack Obama, g20, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Global Health, John Kerry, Richard Lugar, Foreign Aid, Pepfar, U.S. Senate, Africa, Advocacy, G-20 Summit, G-20, World News
Jirair Ratevosian

The global economic crisis makes foreign assistance an even greater priority when you consider the impact it has on the health of the poor and most marginalized.

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The G-20 & Africa: Rethinking the Aid Model

Olivia Sterns | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: African Aid, Foreign Aid, Developing Countries, Development, Foreign Affairs, G-20, Africa, World News
Olivia Sterns

Between 1970 and 1998, while aid flows were at their peak, poverty in Africa actually rose from 11% to 66%. Instead of extending credit lines and throwing celebrity rock concerts, perhaps it is time to re-examine what has worked.

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Why Does Senator Conrad Want to Humiliate President Obama at the G-20 Summit?

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, G20 Summit, Richard Lugar, g20, John Kerry, Kent Conrad, Foreign Policy, President Obama, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News
Robert Naiman

Cutting the president's international aid request this week will undercut President Obama at the very moment he will be trying to argue for a coordinated international response.

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Africa: the New Edge, the New Green

Magatte Wade and Michael Strong | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Aid, Foreign Aid, Development, Economic Development, Africa, World News
Magatte Wade and Michael Strong

How can we help Africans develop companies that produce some of the coolest products and services on the planet, while producing them in a socially and environmentally responsible way?

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If You are a G-20 Finance Minister, it's Crunch Time

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: London, Foreign Aid, Poverty, Finance, Economic Crisis, g20, Obama, Gordon Brown, Ministers, G-20, World News
Kumi Naidoo

Times of global financial downturn are often marked by cuts to aid, but these are the times when aid is most necessary and this is time to honor our aid commitments.

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Chinese President Vows Increase In Aid To Africa

Xinhua | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: Mali, African Aid, Foreign Aid, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu Jintao, Africa, Amadou Toumany Toure, China-Africa, Asia, China, World News

Chinese President Hu Jintao Thursday vowed to increase aid to African countries, cancel part of their debts, and expand trade with and investment in t...

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Playing Games with Women's Lives

Alex Horne | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Foreign Aid, Family Planning, Hiv, Ethiopia, Global Democracy Promotion Act, Zambia, Abortion Rights, President Obama, Mexico City Policy, Family Guidance Association, Planned Parenthood, US Congress, Womens Rights, Abortion Laws, Obama Abortion, Global Gag Rule, Condoms, Politics News
Alex Horne

The Global Gag Rule restricts U.S. foreign aid to non-US-based organizations that provide legal voluntary abortion services or advocate for less restrictive abortion laws within their country.

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