The deadly famine in East Africa continues and now conflict involving the Islamist extremists known as al-Shabab could make a…
The U.S. Agency for International Development, once one of the most bureaucratic and boring agencies in the federal government, is…
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…
Chances are, most Americans were surprised to learn that Egypt has been the second or third largest recipient of U.S.…
The Obama Administration says it wants to re-invent foreign aid and one of its mantras is to increase “country ownership”…
Egypt, now in political revolution, is one of the largest recipients of U.S. foreign aid, getting more than a billion…
Most Americans think we spend a huge amount of money on foreign aid and that this is an area where…
Because of the hard economic times, or maybe it’s the holiday spirit, a number of folks are saying we need…