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Rethink Roundup

By
Sarah Jane Staats
May 10, 2013

 

Lots of Rethink-relevant news and announcements lately. Here’s our roundup:

  1. White House issues exciting new open data policy.
     
  2. MCC launches evaluation catalog with metadata (microdata forthcoming) from its independent evaluations. First up: food security.
     
  3. The end of extreme poverty? The question, some data, and why it isn’t enough.
     
  4. Kerry, Shah and Vilsack (the State-USAID-Department of Agriculture triumvirate) urge the United States to get with the times on food aid.
     
  5. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) gives the foreign assistance act rewrite another go.

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