Don't Turn Foreign Aid Over to the Heritage Foundation

Previous USAID metrics tended to rely on research from universities, such as Columbia's Earth Institute and the Harvard Center for International Development, international organizations like the World Bank, and moderate American think tanks like the Brookings Institution. (Today, Feed the Futur...

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Published in:Foreign Policy in Focus 2018, p.1
Main Authors: Grumbach, Jacob M, Rock, Joeva
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Conservatism
EU membership
Food security
Food supply
Foreign aid
International economic organizations
International organizations
Markets
Obama, Barack
Political parties
Think tanks
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Summary:Previous USAID metrics tended to rely on research from universities, such as Columbia's Earth Institute and the Harvard Center for International Development, international organizations like the World Bank, and moderate American think tanks like the Brookings Institution. (Today, Feed the Future, Obama's flagship food security program, boasts of building markets and supply chains for dozens of U.S. companies overseas.) But the new metrics in USAID's "Roadmap" originate from a different set of groups. [...]USAID's "Roadmap" is more open about pursuing one of Heritage Foundation's long held goals: the disbandment of USAID.
ISSN:1524-1939