America Abroad Media interviewed CGD president Nancy Birdsall and non-resident fellow Carol Lancaster.

Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA), Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) spoke at the launch Tuesday on Capitol Hill of a new proposal calling for what amounts to a complete makeover of U.S. foreign assistance. New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century...

WASHINGTON,D.C.(May 20,2008)- The administration of George W. Bush has ramped up foreign aid spending to unprecedented levels and has implemented a number of important foreign aid initiatives but each of these advances has brought with it a set of policy challenges for the future and has added to th...

Two former leading USAID officials, Andrew Natsios and Carol Lancaster, mounted a spirited debate over the Bush administration's planned changes to U.S. development policy at a CGD forum on March 17. The debate centered on the creation of a "dual-hatted" USAID Administrator who will also become the ...