confused and
conflicting responsibilities, mandates and authorities, with no clear goals,
and no shared vision.
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Yasmin Tandon
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Aid Needs Help - By Raymond Offenheiser | Foreign Policy - 1 views
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responsibility for U.S. aid is shared between 11 different government agencies, each with different agendas and sometimes conflicting priorities.
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United States collects several times the amount in tariffs than it provides in development assistance, essentially taxing the very trade U.S. leaders tout as the solution to poverty
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Cambodia, government officials typically find it easier to get information on aid resources from the Chinese government than from the U.S. government
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humanitarian aid efforts has been promised -- two separate USAID contractors recently discovered by chance they were doing virtually the same project, in the same town.
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But his. government is still trying to address this 21st-century challenge with a 20th-century toolkit.
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The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 integrates 140 different goals and priorities and 400 directives, and is executed by at least 12 departments, 25 different agencies, and almost 60 government offices. Moreover, successive presidents and congresses have often chosen to work around the act, enacting more than 20 additional pieces of legislation to achieve their foreign-aid goals. As a result, the existing system's mission has become muddled and confused, cluttered with earmarks, special coordinators, and loopholes.
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Foreign aid and development in a globalising world - Network for Student Activism - 0 views
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The Debate over Foreign Aid - Council on Foreign Relations - 0 views
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-$14.6 billion--for global challenges like health, food security, climate change, and humanitarian assistance.
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structural shifts to reach those goals, including aligning foreign assistance more closely with foreign policy objectives, demanding greater accountability from recipient governments, and delivering more "bang for the buck" by increasing cross-agency cooperation, streamlining delivery of goods and services, and reducing U.S. government redundancies.
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In fact, $14.6 billion for the abovementioned global challenges amounts to a mere .38 percent of the $3.8 trillion federal budget.
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The problem is that polls show that Americans actually believe that spending on overseas health, development, and humanitarian and anti-poverty programs is 15 to 20 percent of the national budget. In fact, spending has never exceeded 0.5 percent.
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World Bank estimates show backward movement on key health and development targets since the onset of the economic crisis.
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2. Will the Obama administration's structural reorganization of foreign assistance achieve the administration's, or Congress', goals?
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EBSCOhost: Obama at UN summit: foreign aid is 'core pillar of American power' - 1 views
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development and foreign assistance are for the first time elevated to the level of key factors in US national security and economic policy.
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Foreign Aid for Development Assistance - Global Issues - 0 views
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both the quantity and quality of aid have been poor and donor nations have not been held to account.
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world’s rich countries agreed to give 0.7% of their gross national income as official international development aid, annually
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Furthermore, aid has often come with a price of its own for the developing nations:Aid is often wasted on conditions that the recipient must use overpriced goods and services from donor countriesMost aid does not actually go to the poorest who would need it the mostAid amounts are dwarfed by rich country protectionism that denies market access for poor country products, while rich nations use aid as a lever to open poor country markets to their productsLarge projects or massive grand strategies often fail to help the vulnerable; money can often be embezzled away.
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The donor governments promised to spend 0.7% of GNP on ODA (Official Development Assistance) at the UN General Assembly in 1970—some 40 years ago
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developed countries will rapidly and progressively take what measures they can … to reduce the extent of tying of assistance and to mitigate any harmful effects
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Developed countries will provide, to the greatest extent possible, an increased flow of aid on a long-term and continuing basis.
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almost all rich nations have constantly failed to reach their agreed obligations of the 0.7% target. Instead of 0.7%, the amount of aid has been around 0.2 to 0.4%, some $100 billion short.
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USA’s aid, in terms of percentage of their GNP has almost always been lower than any other industrialized nation in the world, though paradoxically since 2000, their dollar amount has been the highest.Between 1992 and 2000, Japan had been the largest donor of aid, in terms of raw dollars. From 2001 the United States claimed that position, a year that also saw Japan’s amount of aid drop by nearly 4 billion dollars.
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In 2009, the OCED and many others feared official aid would decline due to the global financial crisis. They urged donor nations to make aid “countercyclical”; not to reduce it when it is needed most, but those who didn’t cause the crisis.
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And indeed, for 2009, aid did increase as official stats from the OECD shows. It rose 0.7% from just under $123 bn in 2008 to just over $123 bn in 2009 (at constant 2008 prices).
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foreign aid definition of foreign aid in the Free Online Encyclopedia. - 0 views
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economic, military, technical, and financial assistance given on an international, and usually intergovernmental level.
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Aid may be given as a grant, with no repayment obligation, or a loan, and often comes with conditions that require that the recipient nation purchase goods or services with the aid from the donor nation.
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Agency for International Development Agency for International Development (AID), federal agency created (Sept., 1961) to consolidate U.S. nonmilitary foreign aid programs. Originally an agency in the State Department, it has been a component part of the U.S...... Click the link for more information.
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toward poorer nations with good governance and open economies; the program places fewer restrictions on how participating nations use the aid.
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Japan was the world's largest foreign aid donor, followed by United States, France, and Germany. Great Britain
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2001, the United States passed Japan as the world's largest donor as a result of Japanese cutbacks in foreign aid
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International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its affiliates, the International Development Association, and the International Finance Corporation;
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Food and Agriculture Organization Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), specialized agency of the United Nations, established in 1945. The organization is governed by a conference composed of the entire membership (189 nations plus the European Union), which meets at least once biennially, and by..... Click the link for more information. .
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Rethinking American Foreign Aid - US Foreign Aid - 0 views
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Others are concerned that our foreign aid falls far short of the global commitments made in the Millennium Development Goals.
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And yet others say Western foreign assistance is focused more on "giving a man a fish" than on "teaching a man to fish."
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The State Department budget plus all the foreign aid totals less than $40 billion (which is less than 1.5% of the federal budget). But Defense Department spending for this year, plus maintenance of America's nuclear arsenal, plus the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
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United States of America: Foreign Aid - 0 views
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Most donations come from individuals (76 percent of the total), and some nonprofit sectors were hit harder last year than others
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absolute figures are less significant than the proportion of gross domestic product (GDP, or national wealth) that a country devotes to foreign aid
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50% of its aid budget is spent on middle-income countries in the Middle East, with Israel being the recipient of the largest single share.