Tag: Economics & Development
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