Tag: Economics & Development
A New Face, But an Old Tactic: History Offers Clues on Stopping Russia’s African Advance
by Herman J. Cohen
Coming to Grips with Poverty in Africa
by Mark G. Wentling Reducing poverty has been at the heart of U.S. foreign assistance in dozens of low-income countries for more than a half-century. Despite U.S. foreign policy objectives, much work, and hundreds of billions of assistance dollars expended, … Read more
The Guinea Worm, President Carter and Me
A Journey Through Health Diplomacy By Lisa Rotondo In September 2001, just days before 9/11, I arrived in Pissila, Burkina Faso for my Peace Corps assignment. I was eager to get to work helping my new home community do surveillance … Read more
Where the “Marshall Plan” Became the Organization for European Economic Cooperation
by Renee M Earle
U.S.-China Agricultural Dialogue in Des Moines Shows Potential for Improving Relations During a Critical Period
by Kenneth Quinn
American Leadership and a Global Offensive Against COVID
by John Blaney and Christopher Datta
The Enduring Struggle
Review by Desaix Myers
The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World by John Norris
Why Nation-Building Matters
Review by Renee M Earle
Why Nation Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States by Keith W. Mines