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USAID Answers President’s Call to End Extreme Poverty
In its third annual letter, Administrator Shah shares the work USAID does around the world to help answer President Obama’s call to end extreme poverty. Read more >>
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 >>
Meeting the President’s Challenge to End Extreme Poverty
We are advancing President Obama’s critical agenda to eradicate the scourge of extreme poverty through Feed the Future, the President’s signature global hunger and food security initiative. Read more >>
Getting to Zero and Eliminating Extreme Poverty
During his State of the Union address, the President articulated a vision that represented one of the clearest, most direct calls to development action in recent years. At USAID, we’ve spent considerable time analyzing what it would take to eradicate extreme poverty. Read more >>
FrontLines Feature: How to Get All Children Reading
Since literacy has been shown to lead to better health, higher incomes and more vibrant democracies, USAID and partners are seeking new solutions to an age-old problem. Read more >>
Resilience: Safety Net for Reducing Hunger and Malnutrition
Over the last month, we have watched communities along the New York and New Jersey coastline begin to rebuild from the devastating impact of Hurricane Sandy. It is a reminder that we are all vulnerable to natural disasters that can happen at any time. How communities survive and recover from these shocks depends very much on their resilience Read more >>
Enough Isn’t Enough: Why Food Security Matters to Me
Traditionally centered around a big meal to celebrate good harvests and time with family, Thanksgiving is also an opportunity to reflect on what we’re thankful for and our wishes for the future. At the top of our list is the hope for a future in which no one goes to bed hungry. Read more >>
El Salvador Makes the Grade in Universal Primary Education
Rising Out of Poverty
Good news for developing countries: In February, the World Bank released its most recent figures on global poverty and showed stunning progress in the number of people living in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 per day) around the world. Since 1981 the global poverty headcount ratio (the percentage of the world’s population living in extreme [...]
