Report: U.S. Foreign Aid Needs Overhaul (USA Today)

USA Today quotes CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet on U.S. foreign assistance reform.

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"The GAO report, obtained by USA TODAY, concludes that a 2006 initiative by then-secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to reform the scattershot programs has made progress but has not overcome major hurdles. Programs remain disconnected from a larger strategy, the report says. The Rice effort sought to unify what the report says is about $18.9 billion in programs under the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), but it didn't include as many as 18 other agencies that deliver foreign aid, said Steven Radelet, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a former Treasury Department official."

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