At a recent Senate hearing on U.S. foreign assistance reform, witnesses were asked how to build in this country a constituency for global development in other countries. CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet, InterAction president Sam Worthington, and Brookings Global Economy and Development vice president and director Lael Brainard pointed to the ONE Campaign and the latest edition of Vanity Fair guest edited by Bono as examples of growing awareness of global development among Americans. CGD deputy director for outreach and policy Sarah Jane Staats (Hise) looks at why reading about Africa in supermarket checkout lines matters, and how it might help spur real foreign aid reform in the U.S.
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