USAID’s cost-benefit analysis trainings directly impact the effectiveness of host government spending, with the ultimate goal of increasing employment, equity and economic growth. Read more >>
Tag archives for Economic development
Celebrating Peace Corps Week: Those Extraordinary Ordinary Volunteers!
This week, we’re celebrating our partner agency the Peace Corps during it’s annual Peace Corps Week. Read more >>
Interagency Panel on Economic Statecraft to Create Competitive Foreign Markets
Last Monday, December 10, I had the opportunity to speak at an interagency panel on the topic of Economic Statecraft and Developing Partnerships with the Private Sector. Read more >>
Shared Values, Shared History: Administrator Shah Visits West Point
Today, Dr. Shah travels to West Point for the first time a sitting USAID Administrator has visited the Academy. His visit comes just over a year since President Obama elevated development on par with defense and diplomacy and one week before Veterans Day, offering an opportunity to highlight the importance of development to national security [...]
The Keys to Sustainability: Capacity Building and Country Ownership
Dr. Montague Demment is Associate Vice President for International Development at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and professor of ecology at the University of California, Davis. This item was originally posted on Agrilinks. The big question for us all: How do we make agricultural development work and work sustainably? Perhaps the most [...]
USAID-Supported Program Returns $15 million to US Treasury
By Paige Alexander, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia Today, I hosted a ceremony in Washington with the Board of Directors of the Albanian-American Enterprise Fund (AAEF) to celebrate the return of $15 million to American taxpayers. The Albanian-American Enterprise Fund was established in 1995 with a $30 million grant from USAID to assist [...]
50th Anniversary: The Program of Scientific and Technological Cooperation
Submitted by: John A. Daly The Program of Science and Technology Cooperation broke ground for USAID. It may have also, been premature. PSTC introduced biotechnology to developing nations, directed attention both to personal computers and the Internet, pioneered in the protection of biodiversity, and indirectly strengthened the role of science at USAID. Created by a [...]
