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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Changing The Conversation, Innovative U.S. Foreign Assistance Created to Reduce Poverty, October 1, 2006-September 30, 2007
Author: Changing The Conversation, Innovative U.S. Foreign Assistance Created to Reduce Poverty, October 1, 2006-September 30, 2007
Author: Changing the Conversation
Author: Millennium Challenge Corporation (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Changing the Conversation
Author: Millennium Challenge Corporation (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Communities in Action
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Security by Other Means
Author: Lael BrainardPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815713681
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A Brookings Institution Press and Center for Strategic and International Studies publication In a world transformed by globalization and challenged by terrorism, foreign aid has assumed renewed importance as a foreign policy tool. While the results of more than forty years of development assistance show some successes, foreign aid is currently dispersed between many agencies and branches of government in a manner that formulation and implementation of a coherent, effective strategy. The current political climate is receptive to a transition toward greater accountability and effectiveness in development aid. Because this transition is clearly an imperative but has not yet been comprehensively addressed, the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies have conducted a joint study that both assesses the current structures of foreign assistance and makes recommendations for efficient coordination. Drawing on expertise from the full range of agencies whose policies affect foreign aid, Security by Other Means examines foreign assistance across four categories reflecting the interests that aid furthers: security, economic, humanitarian, and political. As disparities in the world become more untenable, foreign aid plays a key role in not only the national interests of the U.S. but also the interconnected interests of the international community. This important new volume takes aim at critical questions in a concerted manner by assigning coherence and effectiveness to U.S. foreign aid. Contributors include Owen Barder (Center for Global Development, formerly UK Department for International Development), Charlie Flickner (former Staff Director of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations), Steve Hensch (George Washington University), Steve Morrison (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Steve Radelet (Center for Global Development)
Transforming Foreign Aid
Author: Carol LancasterPublisher: Peterson Institute
ISBN: 9780881322910
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The phenomenon of foreign aid began at the end of World War II and has survived the Cold War. How should the United States now spend its foreign aid to support its interests and values in the new century? In this study, Carol Lancaster takes a fresh look at all US foreign aid programs and asks whether their purposes, organization and management are appropriate to US interests and values in the world of the 21st century. Lancaster finds that US aid in the new century, if it is to be an effective tool of US foreign policy, needs to be transformed. Its purposes need to be refocused and its organization and management brought into line with those purposes. Those purposes include support for peace-making, addressing transnational issues, providing for humane concerns and responding to humanitarian emergencies. Traditional programs aimed at promoting development, democracy and economic and political transitions in former socialist countries will not disappear but they will have less priority than inthe past. These new sets of purposes, promoting both US interests and values abroad, also offer a policy paradigm around which a new political consensus can be created that will support US aid in the 21st century.Transforming Foreign Aid should be of particular interest to professors, students, and researchers of international affairs, foreign policy, political science, and political economy.
Dead Aid
Author: Dambisa MoyoPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9781429954259
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse. In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the "need" for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance. Dead Aid is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.
US Foreign Assistance and the Change from Economic to Security-based Aid
Author: Donald David Arthur SchaeferPublisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Beyond Assistance
Author: HELP Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Foreign assistance is critical. It conveys America's humanitarian values. It helps protect America's national security. And it helps countries address dire poverty and develop so that they can better provide for their own people. Our foreign assistance system is broken. We ignore this reality at our peril. The American people, and those in the developing world striving for a better life, deserve a better foreign assistance system. The American people have a right to expect that when the United States Government spends their hard-earned dollars for international assistance and development programs the money is spent wisely on attainable objectives tied to our national and moral interests. The American people have a right to know that when they call upon our government to help people overseas stop the suffering from disease, famine, and other catastrophes, their tremendous compassion and generosity will yield tangible results. The American people have a right to demand that the best possible tools are in place to permit any administration to conduct a robust foreign policy. For nearly [twenty two] months, this bipartisan Commission interviewed, at home and abroad, many of the world's foremost experts on U.S. foreign assistance. We spoke with current and former Secretaries of State. We met with leaders of U.S. Government agencies involved with foreign assistance. We met for more than two days straight with an international group of experts, testing and examining our preliminary findings under multiple alternative scenarios for the future. We consulted scholars, contractors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses and aid recipients, and studied previous reform efforts and reports. Opinions and recommendations varied. But not one person appeared before this Commission to defend the status quo. -- exec. summ. (p.7).