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Blog Post
May 07, 2010
This is a joint post with Wren Elhai and Molly Kinder.
Senator Richard Lugar’s new opinion piece on Foreign Policy’s website lays out the case that a strong economic partnership with Pakistan is in U.S. national interests. Lugar argues that the recent failed bombing in Times Square and the su...
Blog Post
April 06, 2010
This commentary also appeared on The Huffington Post and Global Post
Last week at a United Nations conference, donors pledged more than $10 billion to finance reconstruction and development investments in Haiti. The United States promised a hefty $1.15 billion.
But pledging money is th...
February 17, 2010
By Nancy Birdsall, William D. Savedoff, and Ayah Mahgoub
A brief description of a new approach to foreign aid that would accelerate progress toward universal primary education by offering a contract to low-income countries which pays a specific amount for every additional child who completes primar...
January 16, 2010
On October 30, 2006, Nancy Birdsall gave remarks to the Hilton Humanitarian Prize Symposium on Democracy and Development in New York City. Her speech entitled, Aid, State Formation and the Missing Middle, centers around the following questions: "What is the connection between political and human rig...