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BRIEFS
The Foreign Assistance Agency Briefs: Introduction
April 12, 2017
The US Development Policy Initiative at the Center for Global Development launched the Foreign Assistance Agency Briefs for a simple reason. Foreign assistance is in the spotlight, slated for significant budget cuts during the Trump administration, yet it remains poorly understood. The series of fiv...
Blog Post
Anne-Marie Slaughter: Any Secretary of State "Would Be a Fool to Give Up" the QDDR
May 05, 2015
For Anne-Marie Slaughter, architect of the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, what was most pleasing about the second one, released last week, was that there was a second one. ‘It’s hard to have a quadrennial review if it’s only one,’ she told me in...
Blog Post
Enhancing the Transparency of U.S. Aid to Pakistan: It Starts with a Click
July 07, 2010
This is a joint post with Wren Elhai. Everyone (John Kerry, Richard Lugar, Richard Holbrooke, and, yes, CGD’s own Nancy Birdsall) agrees our aid program in Pakistan needs to be more transparent. Transparent aid can help to counter the widespread mistrust and misinformation about U.S. practice...