Food Aid Fight: World Vision battles Oxfam within the Iron Triangle
Maybe you’ve heard of the nearly trillion-dollar U.S. Farm Bill.
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Bizarre Range of Aid Projects in Afghanistan
With millions to spend on aid projects on Afghanistan, the US has managed to provide funding for some rather strange…
USAID declares water is critical to global development
After fifty years in the game, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) unveiled its first ever water and…
Supreme Court hears overseas aid anti-prostitution pledge case today
Free speech and public health advocates will see their causes converge today at the US Supreme Court.
The case – Alliance for Open Society International vs. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – is a challenge made by a number of aid organizations to USAID’s required anti-prostitution pledge.
Obama delivers on global promise to lesbian, gay, bi- and transgender community
The Obama administration made good on its 2011 memorandum to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights with the announcement of a…
Feed the Future Survives for Another Day
Feed the Future is the Obama Administration’s answer to cyclical global hunger crises. Rather than provide food in response to droughts or…
Where and how we do foreign aid
With a somewhat cynical and simplistic lead sentence that implies all of our foreign aid is aimed at coercing other…
Election 2012: Where do the Candidates Stand on Foreign Aid?
Paul Ryan’s addition to the Romney ticket catapults the election season forward. It also provides a bit more clarity on…
Nation’s humanitarian-in-chief takes business-like approach
Writing for Foreign Policy, Samuel Loewenberg questions Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development and a former…
Alan Gross update: Mixing foreign aid with foreign policy.
Remember when the CIA did that fake vaccination scheme in Pakistan, the one that many predicted (correctly) would undermine confidence…