... filariasis and trachoma) by 2020 or 2021 and their control goals soon thereafter. Though “small” when compared to other global health initiatives, this investment proved to be catalytic, and indeed highlights how foreign assistance funding can be transformative, in reducing the burden of major global health...

... foreign assistance The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant strides toward improving its efforts in global health engagement (GHE) to include an emphasized requirement for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of GHE activities. ¹ However, a renewed push is needed to capitalize...

...David Roodman Etymologically, counting is the root of accountability. In its earliest days, the Development Assistance Committee in Paris (DAC) was tasked by its member governments with supporting a ‘common aid effort’, a collective disbursement of foreign assistance to poor nations meant...

... migration foreigner s diaspora exception politics food security Ethiopia commodities exchange markets donors foreign assistance diaspora entrepreneurs agriculture coffee The 1984 famine in Ethiopia stunned the world, leaving an indelible mark on the humanitarian sector ( Deloffre 2011...

... social grants employment poverty economic growth foreign assistance developing countries ...

...This chapter sheds light on African intelligence and foreign assistance from non-African actors. It reviews the British government’s aid in establishing Sierra Leone’s Office of National Security and the Central Intelligence and Security Unit, which are the main civilian intelligence services...

... George Miller George Moffett Toby Montealegre Hernán torture Zalaquett José Pepe Ford Gerald Foreign Assistance Act Kovalev Sergei Sakharov Andrei Watergate China Clinton Bill Deng Xiaoping Jackson Henry Soviet Union Tiananmen Square Trade Act Vanik Charles Arms Cardinal Paulo Evaristo...

..., urging them to focus on poverty reduction, account for the basic needs of the poor and move towards self-reliance as opposed to being dependent on foreign assistance. developing countries world dollars economic development strategies development developed countries liberalism mixed economy poor...

...At the outset, the chapter reviews the way in which foreign assistance has changed since World War II; in particular, aid’s role in bolstering development, ameliorating poverty, and improving health. A large portion of the chapter concerns the promotion of global health, especially in developing...

...The field of international relief and development during the 1960s went through several changes. The foreign policy agenda of John F. Kennedy’s administration brought significant reform to foreign assistance. This chapter discusses the effects of that reform on the increasing numbers of secular...

... Departments started relying on the organization's civilian aid in a number of conflicts and crises. It also considers the support for ARC by social scientists, philanthropists, and the business community. Finally, it examines how ARC's foreign assistance garnered wide enthusiasm among the American public...

...This chapter focuses on the American Red Cross's (ARC) phenomenal growth between 1917 and 1918. It shows how the ARC's leaders sold the organization to the U.S. public and worked to define foreign assistance as a new obligation, a patriotic duty, during World War I. It also examines the extent...

... the opportunity to ply their trades, there was always a possibility that organizational and institutional problems would prevent them from doing so. In fact, Chinese foreign assistance projects were often at the mercy of institutional constraints among Chinese bureaucracies as well as the state apparatus...

... contemporary China Cambodia foreign aid foreign assistance international economic integration I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. —Alan Wilson Watts In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins...

..., the foreign assistance they got and their achievements, especially in developing and producing long range surface to surface missiles. It also describes its role in rehabilitating the country after the 1991 war and its civilian and economic projects. Iraq Iraqi Armed Forces Military Industry and Production...

...The Marshall Plan marked the beginning of modern foreign assistance, and from the very outset national security and foreign aid have been inextricably linked. Successful development assistance can make the world a safer, more stable place, advancing U.S. national interests in direct and subtle ways...

... security Pakistan Central Asia 9/11 foreign assistance natural resources strategic partnership Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, there has been a precipitous rise in India’s engagement in Afghanistan. India committed $2 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to Afghanistan between...

... good governance Chad limited access orders public sector management agriculture food security entrepreneurial personality donors foreign assistance “We want to overthrow our government!” These are words that understandably alarm the international community and strike fear in incumbent regimes...