After months of waiting in limbo, Gayle Smith officially assumed leadership of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) after…
It’s official. Dr. Rajiv Shah, U.S. Agency for International Development administrator for roughly five years, is leaving in February. His…
The labor movement’s international solidarity with the poor only goes so far, it appears. It’s May Day, aka International Workers…
Writing for Foreign Policy, Samuel Loewenberg questions Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development and a former…
The U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, run by former Gates Foundation program manager Rajiv Shah, is trying to upgrade…
Here, from The Browser, are USAID director Rajiv Shah’s top five books on development: 1. A Farewell to Alms by…
Melinda Gates, in Washington, D.C. today for the CARE Women’s Conference, called Congress not to cut foreign aid and also…
The Obama Administration says it wants to re-invent foreign aid and one of its mantras is to increase “country ownership”…
As noted earlier on this blog, some of the world’s leading humanitarian and private foreign assistance organizations have asked the…
Update / clarification on my earlier post in which I poked fun at an article that claimed Bill Gates has…