Most recent headlines about Pakistan -- violent protests on US consulates, Senators agitating to halt all foreign aid there, and the tragic factory fire that killed nearly 300 workers in Karachi – have likely undermined investor confidence in the market. But one headline bucks the trend: the United States has just
What’s going to be President Obama’s legacy on Africa? President Clinton championed AGOA, still the core of US-Africa trade relations. President Bush built PEPFAR and the MCC. There’s an outside chance that Feed the Future could be Obama’s lasting contribution, but I think the jury’s still out. So what kind of big impact-big splash effort could we hope for in the next four years, from either a second Obama term or a new Romney administration?
If last night’s SOTU was, as expected, short on development, at least the Obama Administration finally made good on last year’s SOTU promise to try to consolidate the USG agencies that work on economic promotion. (I say “try” since the request is simply for fast-track authority; no plan has actually been revealed yet.) I’m torn on what I’ve been hearing so far: