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US Global Development Policy

Rainy Season Exposes Precariousness of Haiti's Homeless Camps

Mark Schuller | Posted 08.10.2011 | World
Read More: Haiti-Earthquake, Hurricane Season, Displacement, Ngos, Cholera, US Global Development Policy, Internally Displaced People, Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), Haiti, World News
Mark Schuller

The rain is adding fuel to an open flame of cholera. Health experts are registering an increase in cholera cases; in Carrefour, the cholera clinic saw an average of 300 per day this week, when it had been 300 cases per week.

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Too Big to Succeed? Why (w)hole-of-government cannot work for U.S. development policy

Todd Moss | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Foreign Aid, US Global Development Policy, Development, World News
Todd Moss

While talking beautifully about its development plans, the Administration is really not living up to its rhetoric of elevating development to equal st...

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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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Help Wanted: Ideas to Inform White House Presidential Study Directive on U.S. Development Policy

Sheila Herrling | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Reviewing Foreign Policy, US Global Development Policy, White House, Barack Obama, President Obama, Presidential Study Directive, Psd, Politics News
Sheila Herrling

The White House just started its public outreach on the Presidential Study Directive and genuinely wants input. What do we want them to hear?

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