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Blog Post
December 11, 2015
Earlier this week, CGD president Nancy Birdsall testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing on the Millennium Challenge Corporation. A main impetus for the hearing was the introduction this summer of legislation (S. 1605) that would enable MCC to pursue regionally-focu...
Blog Post
April 30, 2015
By now you’ll have seen the news that President Obama has nominated Gayle Smith to be the next Administrator for USAID. It took 18 months to nominate former Administrator Raj Shah. It’s a healthy sign of support for USAID that the White House has moved more quickly this time, just two mo...
Blog Post
August 28, 2012
In a recent blog post, Pakistani economist Anjum Altaf lambasted our recent report on the US development approach to Pakistan, “More Money, More Problems,” for not being sufficiently skeptical of the US development program, especially the US aid program, in Pakistan. Dr. Altaf criticized our 2011 r...
Blog Post
April 19, 2012
This is a joint post with Nancy Birdsall.
In a recent interview with the Associated Press, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah stated that the United States will be working to significantly decrease the number of development projects it is currently supporting in Pakistan, from the current 140 ...