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Aug 03, 2011
Recent developments in the aid strategy of the United States — such as reversing a previous reduction in technical experts, and promoting more country-driven, outcome-oriented systems — have been endorsed by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Aug 01, 2011
Current budget battles in Washington could result in an erosion of our country's "soft power" as US agencies who implement core foreign assistance programmes come under financial attack.
Aug 01, 2011
Current budget battles in Washington could result in an erosion of our country's "soft power" as US agencies who implement core foreign assistance programmes come under financial attack.
Jul 29, 2011
Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development.Weekly Twitter Round UpUS NGOs say foreign aid funding cuts will have dire impact on world's poor: http://t.co/U15eY3A
Jul 27, 2011
Legislation that would sharply cut U.S. foreign aid programs and slash support for family planning advanced on Wednesday in the Republican-controlled House, drawing protests from State Department officials and relief agencies.
Jul 27, 2011
Calling it "debilitating to my efforts to carry out a considered foreign policy and diplomacy," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning members of the House of Representatives that she "will recommend personally" that President Barack Obama veto a bill pending in the House that would severely restrict State Department operations, international organizations and foreign assistance.
Jul 22, 2011
Sam Worthington radio interview: Millions of Somalis are mired in a deep humanitarian crisis that is now driving thousands of refugees over the border to Kenya daily. Famine is devastating the country, and the process of seeking outside aid is complicated by by an ineffective government, interference by the al-Qaida linked group al-Shabaab, and internal strife.http://www.thetakeaway.org/2011/jul/22/famine-and-somalia-challenges-providing-aid-failed-state/
Jul 20, 2011
Desperate to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, the U.S. has begun pushing aid organizations working in the country's most dangerous region along the Afghan border to advertise that they receive American assistance.
Jul 08, 2011
Samuel A. Worthington writes about the prospective 2012 U.S. presidential candidates who want to limit our engagement abroad and those lawmakers who propose cuts to the 2012 foreign affairs budget have forgotten a basic budgeting rule.
Jun 17, 2011
Samuel A. Worthington writes column that explains how robust foreign assistance helps governments in developing countries build more stable, prosperous societies, and can be a catalyst in pulling a country out of poverty.
