Category: Aid Effectiveness
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Raj Shah on Ending Poverty
On November 21, 2013 USAID Administrator Raj Shah spoke at Brookings, saying that the End of Poverty is within our reach, and would be the top priority of the agency. Click on the image at right to download USAID’s new brochure on this subject, and click here for the full text of Shah’s remarks. Shah…
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Obama commits to end extreme poverty in 20 years
Not since FDR’s Four Freedom’s speech in 1941 has a US president spoken out strongly for ending world hunger and poverty in a State of the Union Address, as did President Obama in his February 12, 2013 address. In one paragraph he expressed a broad, multi-pronged commitment: “We also know that progress in the most…
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What constitutes an enabling environment for the poor to succeed in their own development?
Working paper for a National Strategy Forum, April 1994, Dhaka, Bangladesh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework that will facilitate the participants in the upcoming strategic forum to identify new openings for action to provide an enabling environment for the poor. As will be shown below, the lack of a…
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Planning-in-Action: an innovative approach to human development
The Hunger Project, March 1991 In November and December of 1990, The Hunger Project was privileged to work in collaboration with the Planning Commission of India to pioneer an innovative approach to the process of planning. Specifically, this approach is designed to accelerate progress in the field of human development and bring about the end…