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	<title>ONE &#187; Development Assistance</title>
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		<title>On Modernizing Development</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/07/23/on-modernizing-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Moriarty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bread for the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Jeff Sachs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Bob Corker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The issues that we face today- from chronic poverty and hunger to violent acts of terrorism- require that we work seamlessly toward identifiable goals.”  Senator Richard Lugar opened with a strong statement on the importance of aid reform yesterday at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that I attended called The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting Over on Development: Lessons from Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/26/starting-over-on-development-lessons-from-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/26/starting-over-on-development-lessons-from-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Nowels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran filed an interesting piece on June 19 documenting past failures of U.S. economic assistance in Afghanistan and how the new Administration is taking a different approach (Obama’s War: Starting Over on Development; U.S. Pursues a New Way to Rebuild in Afghanistan).
Chandrasekaran notes how President Obama’s new team in Afghanistan, led [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aid Debate Recap</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/07/aid-debate-recap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/07/aid-debate-recap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa.Fleisher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dambisa Moyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Aid is Dead Wrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, we noted that the Munk debates program would feature a discussion about foreign aid and we encouraged those who watched to post their thoughts and reactions. ONE&#8217;s Policy Advisory Board member Paul Collier, along with Stephen Lewis, Dambisa Moyo, and Hernando de Soto talked for almost two hours about the opportunities and challenges [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Donors suspend funding to Zambia in response to corruption reports</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/29/donors-suspend-funding-to-zambia-in-response-to-corruption-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/29/donors-suspend-funding-to-zambia-in-response-to-corruption-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 21:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa.Fleisher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zambia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Swedish and Dutch governments announced today that they will suspend $33 million in aid to Zambia following reports about embezzlement in the Ministry of Health.  Reports indicate the civil society was calling for the Ministry of Health to publish expenditures, but former President Mwanawasa cancelled the spending reports, which may have led some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Secretary Clinton Testifies</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/20/secretary-clinton-testifies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/20/secretary-clinton-testifies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Secretary Hillary Clinton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today in her opening statement before the Senate Appropriations Sub-Committee on Foreign Operations, Secretary Clinton made clear once again the critical need for overseas development assistance for our economic and national security.  She began her testimony by stating, “When I appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee a few weeks ago with Secretary Gates, we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Congressional Call for a Global Development Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/30/a-congressional-call-for-a-global-development-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/30/a-congressional-call-for-a-global-development-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Nowels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Howard Berman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Mark Kirk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Howard Berman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Mark Kirk (R-IL) have introduced a bi-partisan bill requiring the President to draft and implement a comprehensive National Strategy for Global Development.  The Strategy requirement is one part of H.R. 2139 – Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009 – legislation that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: Aid is working</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/09/president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-aid-is-working/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/09/president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-aid-is-working/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy McKiernan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dead Aid is Dead Wrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Washington Post is running a great op-ed by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia. In the piece, the President talks about how the financial crisis threatens Africa’s turnaround and she also weighs in on how development assistance – along with stronger African leadership and better governance &#8212; has contributed to important progress in Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>European Commission Update</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/09/european-commission-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/09/european-commission-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eloise Todd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.one.org/blog/?p=4851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday April 9th, the European Commission launched its yearly update on how EU donor countries are helping to meet the MDGs. This year President Barroso and Commissioner for Development Louis Michel used the opportunity to make some key announcements on advancing crucial development assistance for African countries. It&#8217;s fantastic that the leadership of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doing Development: Who Should Lead the Charge?</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/03/30/doing-development-who-should-lead-the-charge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/03/30/doing-development-who-should-lead-the-charge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rena Pacheco-Theard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.one.org/blog/?p=4453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I attended a U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing: “Striking the Appropriate Balance: The Defense Department’s Expanding Role in Foreign Assistance.”  There is ongoing debate about the imbalance among the three Ds of U.S foreign policy: Defense, Diplomacy and Development, and how a lack of capacity and resources in other agencies has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Breaking News: DAC Releases Annual Report</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/03/30/breaking-news-dac-releases-annual-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/03/30/breaking-news-dac-releases-annual-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Lozman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.one.org/blog/?p=4433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year in early April, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) releases preliminary figures for what each large donor country spent on official development assistance the year before. This morning, the DAC released the figures for 2008. There is some good and bad news in there. Though we will post much more analysis later in [...]]]></description>
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