Hill, Aid Groups: One Opaque System Replaced Another
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Shortly after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took office in 2005, she was surprised to discover that her staff could not answer a simple query: How much does the United States spend each year on promoting democracy overseas?
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Aid is proving crucial - and may lift America's image.
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Two years ago, the Government of Tanzania in collaboration with the US-based, Abbott Fund and other partners, pioneered an initiative dubbed Tanzania Care, geared to modernize countryâs public health care facilities and systems.
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The initial aid pledges were generous, but governments will have to follow up on their word
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Six months ago, the death of a 12-year-old Prince George's County boy from untreated dental decay shed a grim spotlight on gaps in federal and state medical assistance programs charged with providing care to 30 million poor children.
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The Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan panel that mapped out an alternative U.S. strategy for Iraq last December, may be reconstituted for a sequel.
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The Pentagon has steadily tightened its grip over U.S. aid and foreign policy in recent years. Now, the Senate Armed Services Committee is trying to pry it loose.
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The U.S. government has shortchanged minority farmers, providing them with a fraction of the aid given to their white counterparts, Oxfam said in a report on Thursday, as the aid and advocacy group pushed Congress to craft legislation reversing decades of exclusion.
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Helping Iraq is hard to do. Many aid organizations have already pulled out their international staffs and, faced with the kidnapping of the director of CARE International in Iraq, some are wondering if they ...
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Some experts say American policymakers are confusing tactical adjustments with a strategy.
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LONDON, Sep 15 (IPS) - ? The British government statement that it is    withholding some funds from the World Bank has drawn conditional    praise from aid agencies.
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Â· Change backed by police and civil rights groupsÂ· New review to examine practicality and safeguards
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One school of thought would provide alternative development aid locally. The other focuses on prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment.
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THOMONDE, Haiti -- Despite political conflict that led to the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide last February and the freezing of hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid, microfinance initiatives have flourished in Haiti in recent years.
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Proposals to help poor countries work their own way out of debt are being published by a Tory policy group.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 13 (IPS) - Inequalities between men and women are not  adequately addressed in aid programmes for countries of the  former Soviet Union, a new study has concluded.
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A fund set up to help combat three of the world's most widespread diseases will support another round of projects, organizers said Thursday, after the United States dropped its objections to financing provisions.