The Biden Administration’s Development Agenda

This series of five blog posts will assess the Biden administration's impact based on the administration’s own account of its accomplishments as laid out in the U.S. Strategy on Global Development released by the White House in September 2024, which centers around five pillars:

  1. Reduce Poverty through Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth and Quality Infrastructure Development
  2. Invest in Health, Food Security, and Human Capital
  3. Decarbonize the Economy and Increase Climate Resilience
  4. Promote Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance and Address Fragility and Conflict
  5. Respond to Humanitarian Needs

More from the Series

Blog Post
A Lookback at the Biden Administration’s Development Agenda, Part V: Humanitarian Response
Karen Mathiasen
January 21, 2025
This is the fifth and final in a series of five blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda over the past four years. This blog focuses on the Biden administration’s record on humanitarian response and offers an assessment of how the new Trump administration could affect Biden’s le...
USAID supply crates on the tarmac at an airport
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A Lookback at The Biden Administration’s Development Agenda, Part IV: Democracy, Human Rights, Conflict, and More
Karen Mathiasen
January 09, 2025
This is the fourth in a series of five blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda over the past four years. This blog focuses on the Biden administration’s record on pillar 4 of its global development agenda, to "Promote Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance and Address Fragilit...
A delegate casts her vote at an election in Somalia
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A Lookback at The Biden Administration’s Development Agenda, Part III: Climate and Decarbonization
Karen Mathiasen
January 06, 2025
This is the third in a series of five blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda. This blog focuses on the Biden administration’s record on pillar 3: Decarbonize the Economy and Increase Climate Resilience, and offers an assessment of how the next Trump administration could affect...
Renewable energy power plant.
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A Lookback at the Biden Administration’s Development Agenda, Part II: Health, Food, and Human Capital
Karen Mathiasen
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Justin Hurley
November 26, 2024
My colleagues and I are preparing a series of blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda over the past 3 ½ years, with analysis on how the next Trump administration could affect its legacy. For the second piece in this series, we look at the outgoing administration’s record on hea...
A farmer in Cambodia collects a harvest