aid

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2015

12:00—1:30 PM

Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountability and Discretion in Four Case Studies

March 04, 2015
With all the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results, what do we really know about how they are being implemented and whether they are effective? In their new paper titled “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountabil...
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MCC’s Next Decade: Claiming the Mantle of Development Leadership

February 25, 2015
Here's my wish list for the future of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Elevate the MCC’s leadership role in US development policy and practice and prove the MCC model’s relevance to the big development and foreign policy challenges of our time, including strategic and fragile st...
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Fulfilling Tunisia’s Promise: What Has the US Learned?

February 23, 2015
Recently Tunisia has cemented its reputation as the brightest hope to emerge from the Arab Spring and we are heartened by the response to this progress, with  President Obama requesting a more than doubling of US assistance to Tunisia in his  2016 budget request.  
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3 Things the Next USAID Administrator Should Focus On

February 19, 2015
Dr. Raj Shah has officially left the building.  USAID’s headquarters in the Ronald Reagan building that is.  He has a long list of accomplishments to take with him.