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US Already $26 Billion Short of “Fair Share” Standard for Development Aid

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Isaac Shapiro
May 19, 2017
A joint analysis with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows the Trump Administration’s proposed budgets cuts could leave US development spending further behind than ever on its fair share.
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Congress Sets Course for Foreign Aid Spending through September

May 09, 2017
Congress has officially wrapped up the FY2017 appropriations process—a mere seven months behind schedule. Much has changed since last fall, including the rhetoric on US foreign aid spending from the sitting administration. And big questions have been swirling about whether the b...
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House Panel Finds Near Consensus against Foreign Aid Cuts

March 29, 2017
While we don’t often blog congressional hearings, yesterday’s discussion of “The Budget, Diplomacy, and Development” in the House Foreign Affairs Committee struck us as especially important given the uncertainty facing the foreign assistance budget: the level of consensus in ...
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The Case for Foreign Assistance — Gates Foundation’s Mark Suzman and CGD Experts

March 29, 2017
How do you make the case for US foreign aid to an Administration that has proposed slashing it? That was the task for Mark Suzman, Chief Strategy Officer and president of Global Policy and Advocacy for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, when he recently accompanied Bill Gates to meet...