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Blog Post
May 12, 2010
This posting is joint with Julia Barmeier
According to its website, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has stopped accepting nominations for its UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences. But we are guessing that ...
Blog Post
May 11, 2010
This is a joint posting with Sarah Jane Staats and also appeared on Global Post and Huffington Post.
In insider Washington there is a battle going on over who will control U.S. global development strategy. The gossip is that it is a White House-State Department fight compounded by a low-level...
Blog Post
May 07, 2010
This is a joint post with Wren Elhai and Molly Kinder.
Senator Richard Lugar’s new opinion piece on Foreign Policy’s website lays out the case that a strong economic partnership with Pakistan is in U.S. national interests. Lugar argues that the recent failed bombing in Times Square and the su...
Blog Post
May 04, 2010
This is a joint post with William Savedoff.
Of course we agree with NYTimes development columnist par excellence Nicholas Kristof that our proposal for Cash on Delivery Aid should be tried. So we are sorry to quibble, but on a couple of points cannot resist.
First Kristof wrote: “The...
Blog Post
May 03, 2010
This is a joint post with Wren Elhai.
If there were ever a national security case to be made for U.S. development assistance, Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (or FATA) would be it. Sandwiched between Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province (formerly the Northwest Frontier Province)...