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Now, 6 months later, it is evident that, although much remains to be done, our foreign aid has made a profound impact on helping the country recover. Following the deaths of 230,000 Haitian citizens and the displacement of another 1.5 million, the...

On Friday morning, the State Department hosted a discussion on the Obama Administration’s outreach to Muslim communities across the world between Steven Clemons of the New America Foundation and Farah Pandith, the Department’s Special Representative on the issue.

In order to meet the first Goal of “eradicating extreme poverty and hunger,” the report states that the U.S. must continue to prioritize its Feed The Future initiative to educate rural farmers on the best farming practices and provide them with...

The President’s $58.8 billion International Affairs Budget request has a major role to play in how effective the United States can be in bolstering exports and competing in the global marketplace.

Shah also highlighted that the Administration recognizes the key to both improving global health in the long term and doing so efficiently is to develop locally-operated health services rather than providing solely direct aid year after year. The...

The G20, which represents 85% of the global economy, has fallen short of its pledges for funding international development, according to the report. Jubilee says that of the $50 billion promised at their April 2009 meeting in London, less than $25...

Shah cited USAID’s response to the recent disaster in Haiti as an example of the rising entrepreneurial spirit in their agency. USAID looked for innovative ways to help Haitians in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, when the normal...

In her speech, she declared that over the next 5 years the Foundation will invest $1.5 billion into making childbirth safer and reducing infant mortality. Each year hundreds of thousands of women die from pregnancy-related causes that could have...

They reiterate that, as coalition forces quickly discovered in their counterinsurgency work in Afghanistan and Iraq, seeking to defeat the enemy through solely military means fails, and perhaps even backfires. This narrowly-focused approach is...