The Trump administration is angling to move billions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid directly into the State Department, partially bypassing USAID and giving the White House near-total discretionary control over how and to who those funds are allocated around the world.
Cryptocurrencies are helping recipients of foreign aid by allowing them to exchange peer-to-peer, rather than having to transact through corruption-prone bureaucrats.
The year 2017 will go down as a particularly tough one for ordinary citizens, particularly in the global South. A sharp rise in government restrictions on fundamental freedoms across regions, as well as in levels of inequality, played a big part in that negative review.
According to a
Since 1948 – and even more so after the collapse of the Soviet Union – annual US aid packages to Israel have largely been driven by the lobbying efforts of Israel affinity organizations in the United States rather than strategic or national defense calculations
A majority Americans say U.S. foreign aid to Israel is excessive – either “much too much” (32.5 percent) or “too much’ (29.4 percent). The single-question March 10, 2016 opinion survey,
The U.S. sends billions to foreign militaries each year. What do we have to show for it?
Last month, the Obama administration released its 2017 budget proposal, including thousands of pages on the nearly $600 billion request for the Pentagon. That money is earmarked for a wide array of
According to the report’s author, the study has ‘tremendous moral implications’ which suggest that donors to Palestine may become unwitting ‘accomplices to Israel’s crimes.’
RAMALLAH --- Aid money to Palestine ends up benefiting the Israeli economy, and may even help perpetuate the occupation, according to an analysis published last year. Published by Aid Watch Palestine, a Palestinian NGO that scrutinizes the spending of foreign relief money, the September 2015
The U.S. government continues to spend billions funding foreign wars and destabilizing the Middle East while America struggles to make ends meet domestically.
WASHINGTON --- A U.S. government official recently revealed the shocking ineffectiveness of millions spent on U.S. plans to train Syrian rebels, while in the United States inequality worsens, national infrastructure crumbles, major cities like Detroit suffer from economic collapse, and student debt and inequality
If he can change his mind on the wisdom of foreign aid, anyone can.
Tom Emmer greeted on a 2015 trip to Africa that has the GOP congressman reconsidering his earlier stance on foreign aid. He proposed eliminating the Minnesota minimum wage. He
