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Foreign Assistance

President Obama and the Spirit of Global Development Partnership

Noam Unger | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Social Innovation, Noam Unger, Public/Private Partnerships, Jane Nelson, Obama Service, Corporate Social Responsibility, Foreign Assistance, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Innovation Fund, Clinton Global Initiative, Johannes Linn, Homi Kharas, Global Poverty, Development, Brookings Institution, World News
Noam Unger

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.

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Obama in Ghana: Time to End Tied Aid

David Gartner | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Obama, Foreign Assistance, Africa, Ghana, Poverty, Obama Ghana Trip, Obama Ghana, World News
David Gartner

Virtually all food assistance provided by the United States to Africa is required to be produced and packaged here and shipped on U.S. flagged vessels halfway around the world.

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Sir Bob Geldof, Bono, Jeff Sachs and Bill Easterly Should Lead on the Reform of the Levers of Foreign Assistance

Sunil Chacko | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Bono, Jeff Sachs, Foreign Assistance, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Easterly, Sir Bob Geldof, Silvio Berlusconi, World Bank, World News
Sunil Chacko

Leading lights of the aid movement -- Geldof, Bono, Sachs and Easterly -- continue to bicker with politicians and amongst themselves without taking a visible role in reform of the levers of assistance.

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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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"Game-Changing Pick" Under Consideration to Head New Foreign Assistance Effort

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equity, Paul Farmer, Pepfar, Health, US Foreign Policy, Global Poverty, Foreign Assistance, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Dr. Paul Farmer expressed eagerness to take the post if it entails reorganizing U.S. foreign assistance, and if he has widespread grassroots support from the global health community.

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Foreign Assistance Crucial To World Health And U.S. Security

Jirair Ratevosian and David Bryden | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

Read More: International Community, Foreign Aid, International Affairs, Clinton Global Initiative, Economic Crisis, Election 2008, Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Aid, Barack Obama, John McCain, Campaign 2008, Home News
Jirair Ratevosian and David Bryden

Why are both parties, who have repeatedly spoken in favor of increasing foreign assistance, now so quick to propose slowing down or canceling aid that can help fight urgent disease threats and restore America's battered image abroad?

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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