Download or read book The Other War written by Lael Brainard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for Global Development publication The plight of the poorest around the world has been pushed to the forefront of America's international agenda for the first time in many years by the war on terrorism and the formidable challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In March 2002, President Bush announced the creation of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). This bilateral development fund represents an increase of $5 billion per year over current assistance levels and establishes of a new agency to promote growth in reform-oriented developing countries. Amounting to a doubling of U.S. bilateral development aid—the largest increase in decades—the MCA offers a critical chance to deliberately shape the face that the United States presents to people in poor nations around the world. This book makes concrete recommendations on crafting a new blueprint for distributing and delivering aid to make the MCA an effective tool, not only in its own right, but also in transforming U.S. foreign aid and strengthening international aid cooperation more generally. The book tackles head on the tension between foreign policy and development goals that chronically afflicts U.S. foreign assistance; the danger of being dismissed as one more instance of the United States going it alone instead of buttressing international cooperation; and the risk of exacerbating confusion among the myriad overlapping U.S. policies, agencies, and programs targeted at developing nations, particularly USAID. In doing so, The Other War draws important lessons from new international development initiatives, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, the mixed record of previous U.S. aid efforts, trends in the U.S. budget for foreign assistance, the agencies currently involved in administering U.S. development policy, and the importance of the relationship between Congress and the executive branch in determining aid outcomes. The MCA holds the promise of substantially increasing U.S. development assistance and piolicy, and the importance of the relationship between Congress and the executive branch in determining aid outcomes. The MCA holds the promise of substantially increasing U.S. development assistance and pioneering a new era in aid, but the authors caution against creating yet another example of wasted aid that could undermine political support for foreign assistance for decades to come.
Download or read book The Agency for International Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Millennium Challenge Corporation written by Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), created a decade ago, was intended to take a unique approach to the development and foreign aid. As designed, the MCC provides development assistance for clearly defined economic objectives in full partnership with a developing country. MCC compacts are earned, not given. With a set of clear indicators that emphasize democratic governance and economic freedoms that determine selectivity, the MCC works with successful countries committed to establishing appropriate enabling environments in which entrepreneurship and economic growth can thrive. Further, MCC is unique in that this process is strongly driven by data and transparency. The MCC is working to reduce poverty in three ways: first, by incentivizing countries to make meaningful reforms, second, by funding projects with tangible outcomes and real impact, and third, by focusing on systemic change that will outlive MCC's engagement.
Download or read book The Millennium Challenge Account written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Millennium Challenge Corporation written by Curt Tarnoff and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 14, 2002, Pres. Bush outlined a proposal for a major new U.S. foreign aid initiative. The Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) provides assistance through a competitive selection process to developing nations that are pursuing political and economic reforms in three areas: ruling justly, investing in people, and fostering economic freedom. The initial plan had been to fund the MCC annually at $5 billion by FY 2006, but this figure has never been reached. Contents of this report: (1) Most Recent Developments; (2) Overview; (3) Background; (4) Implementation; (5) Select Issues: Funding; Authorizing Legislation and Reform; Compact Size; Speed of Implementation; Sectors; Impact; Changing Costs; Role of USAID.
Download or read book Challenging Foreign Aid written by Steven C. Radelet and published by Peterson Institute for International Economics. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews key issues in the debate about the effectiveness of development assistance, including the objectives of foreign aid, the process for selecting countries to receive aid, and how it should be delivered. It applies these lessons to President Bush's proposed Millennium Challenge Account.
Download or read book The Millennium Challenge Account written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Millennium Challenge Account Authorization and Peace Corps Expansion Act of 2003 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Enduring Struggle written by John Norris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This comprehensive history of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. government’s official bilateral foreign aid agency, deserves to be read by all students of U.S. foreign policy." Foreign Affairs US Foreign aid is one of the most misunderstand functions of our federal government. Consuming less than 1% of the federal government budget, it has nonetheless played an outsized role in political debate. At the center of this controversy and misunderstanding has been the U.S. Agency for International Development, or AID, the government agency created during the Kennedy administration to administer America’s foreign assistance programs, an often-conflicted behemoth with a presence spanning the globe. In this book, journalist and foreign policy expert John Norris provides a compelling and rich story of AID, warts and all. There have been moments of enormous triumph: the eradication of smallpox, the Green Revolution, efforts to bring family planning to millions of women for the first time. There have also been florid, headline-grabbing failures in places like Vietnam and Iraq, missteps born out of ignorance and ethnocentrism, and money that flowed into the coffers of despots like President Mobutu in Zaire. In totality, the work of AID has touched millions and millions of lives in ways that have been truly profound, both good and bad. On the Eve of AID’s 60th anniversary, Norris shares history on an almost epic scale that remains largely untold.
Download or read book Matching Capital and Accountability written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Performance Report written by United States. Food and Drug Administration. Office of Management and Systems and published by . This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Millennium Challenge Account written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Millennium Challenge Corporation written by Us Government Accountability Office and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MCC is managed by a chief executive officer, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, and is overseen by a Board of Directors. The Secretary of State serves as board chair and the Secretary of the Treasury as vice-chair. Other board members are the U.S. Trade Representative, the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Chief Executive Officer of MCC, and up to four Senate-confirmed nongovernmental members appointed by the President from lists of individuals submitted by congressional leadership. MCC's model of providing foreign aid is based on a set of core principles deemed essential for effective development assistance, including good governance, country ownership, focus on results, and transparency.
Download or read book The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-06-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2003 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Research Council (NRC) entered into a cooperative agreement. The agreement called for the NRC to examine selected aspects of U.S. foreign assistance activities-primarily the programs of the USAID-that have benefited or could benefit from access to strong science, technology, and medical capabilities in the United States or elsewhere. After considering the many aspects of the role of science and technology (S&T) in foreign assistance, the study led to the publication of The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development. In the book special attention is devoted to partnerships that involve the USAID together with international, regional, U.S. governmental, and private sector organizations in fields such as heath care, agriculture and nutrition, education and job creation, and energy and the environment. This book explores specific programmatic, organizational, and personnel reforms that would increase the effective use of S&T to meet the USAID's goals while supporting larger U.S. foreign policy objectives.
Download or read book Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy written by Louis A. Picard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future. The book focuses primarily on U.S. foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization. The expert contributors examine issues currently in play, and also trace the history and evolution of many of these problems over the years. They address policy concerns as well as management and organizational factors as they affect programs and policies. "Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy" includes several chapter-length case studies (on Iraq, Pakistan, Ghana, Haiti, and various countries in Eastern Europe and Africa), but the bulk of the book presents broad coverage of general topics such as foreign aid and security, NGOs and foreign aid, capacity building, and building democracy abroad. Each chapter offers recommendations on how to improve the U.S. system of aid in the context of foreign policy.
Download or read book The Millennium Challenge Corporation s Global Impact written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Millennium Challenge Corporation in Africa written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
