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	<title>ONE &#187; Foreign Aid</title>
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		<title>Obama Calls For White House Review of Global Development</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/09/04/obama-calls-for-white-house-review-of-global-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/09/04/obama-calls-for-white-house-review-of-global-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Jane Staats</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama signed a Presidential Study Directive (PSD) on Monday calling for a government-wide review of U.S. global development policy. According to White House staff, the president has asked National Security Adviser Jim Jones and National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers to lead the review. The review will include all U.S. government agencies involved in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>U.S. Foreign Aid Appropriations Update</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/07/15/us-foreign-aid-appropriations-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/07/15/us-foreign-aid-appropriations-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Nowels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 9, the House and Senate took actions on the FY2010 Foreign Aid Appropriations bill, providing a clearer outline of the final shape of the U.S. global development budget for next year and how ONE priority programs are likely to fare.  Of particular importance was the House defeat by wide margins of two [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>Urging Obama to Modernize Foreign Assistance</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/03/17/urging-obama-to-modernize-foreign-assistance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/03/17/urging-obama-to-modernize-foreign-assistance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandler.Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Aid Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late January, you heard from us about a group of global development-focused NGOs across the United States who have been advocating for the U.S. to update the way it administers its development programs.  This group of organizations—collectively called the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network—has gone public once again, and together with other development organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bill Gates Pressing Obama on Foreign Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/12/04/bill-gates-pressing-obama-on-foreign-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/12/04/bill-gates-pressing-obama-on-foreign-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Simmons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Cancellation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, (after speaking at the GWU forum) Bill Gates appeared on CNN to continue pushing Obama to &#8220;craft a wide-ranging stimulus package, to help jump-start the nation&#8217;s sputtering economy, and double the United States&#8217; commitment to foreign aid.&#8221; 
Excerpts from CNN.com below:
&#8220;On his Web site, Obama has pledged to double the United States&#8217; annual investment [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>World Bank Doubles Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/11/12/world-bank-doubles-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/11/12/world-bank-doubles-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank announced yesterday that they will be doubling aid to developing countries and companies based there.  This will total approximately $100 billion over the next few years.  The hope is that this can counter some of the lingering effects of the financial crisis as it spreads to developing countries.
Excerpts below, full [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Huffington Post: Foreign Assistance Crucial to World Health and U.S. Security</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/09/huffington-post-foreign-assistance-crucial-to-world-health-and-us-security/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/10/09/huffington-post-foreign-assistance-crucial-to-world-health-and-us-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Lozman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a timely article on yesterday’s Huffington Post about the financial crisis and its potential impact on global development programs. We know that foreign assistance is a critical
part of our foreign policy and following through on our commitments for a stable and secure world is as important now as ever before.
Excerpts below, full piece [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>New York Times turns up the heat on world leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/09/24/new-york-times-turns-up-the-heat-on-world-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/09/24/new-york-times-turns-up-the-heat-on-world-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s New York Times features a piece drafted by the Times’ editorial board calling on world leaders to keep their pledge to cut extreme poverty in half.  The board makes a sharply nuanced case that living up to these promises made at the turn of the millennium would not only succeed in alleviating global [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bono: &#8220;Aid is a leg-up, not a hand-out&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/09/24/bono-aid-is-a-leg-up-not-a-hand-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/09/24/bono-aid-is-a-leg-up-not-a-hand-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Simmons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bono]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BonoFTBloggingUNSummit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance and Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bono continues his live blogging today from UN Special Summit on the Millenium Development Goals. You can see all his posts on the  FT.com Blog site.
Below are some excerpts from his blogging late last night.
Aid is a leg-up, not a hand-out
&#8220;Lots of speeches etc going on inside the UN… President Bush, President Sarkozy. We’re [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Annual Aid Report Card</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/06/20/americas-annual-aid-report-card/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/06/20/americas-annual-aid-report-card/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Lozman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DATA Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DATA Report 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States of America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The DATA Report, which ONE launched in Paris on Wednesday, tracks each G8 country&#8217;s progress towards delivering its commitments on aid to Africa.
This year&#8217;s report found that although U.S. delivery has been slower than hoped, increases in assistance primarily for HIV/AIDS and malaria (areas in which the U.S. is a clear leader) are starting to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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