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Opening Governance to Combat Corruption and Fight Poverty
ONE’s asks of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, Mexico 2012 MORE
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The Millennium Challenge Account
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an innovative approach to foreign assistance that delivers substantial new resources to a carefully selected group of poor countries to support development and poverty reduction. MORE
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Ethiopian famine 25th anniversary - Questions and Answers
As the world begins to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1984-85 famine in Ethiopia, ONE looks at the causes of the famine, the current food crisis in Ethiopia, how the country has changed in the past quarter century, and what needs to happen now. MORE
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SMART Aid Success Stories
There are countless examples of SMART Aid programmes achieving results across Africa, whether in fighting disease, promoting literacy, boosting agriculture, helping African countries to trade and attract investment, or empowering African citizens to fight corruption and hold their own governments to account. MORE
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A New Compact for Global Education
Impressive progress has been made in education in recent years, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks in large part to debt relief and the prioritization of education by governments in developing countries, 40 million more children were enrolled in primary school between 1999 and 2006. Increased development assistance played an important role in these successes. In countries like Tanzania, Ghana, Mozambique and Zambia, for example, substantial increases in development assistance helped support large expansions in enrollment. MORE
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President Obama's FY2010 Budget Request - May 7, 2009
On May 7, 2009, President Obama sent his FY2010 Budget request to Congress. In total, the FY2010 request includes $53.9 billion for International Affairs (the 150 Account), which is $4.1 billion more than the total appropriated in FY2009, or an 8.2% increase.[1] Since the FY2010 request includes all FY2010 funding for Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and humanitarian needs (i.e. P.L. 480 food aid), this analysis compares the FY2010 request with the total FY2009 spending including both the base appropriation, emergency supplementals, and a pending FY2009 supplemental.
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, created in 2002, raises and distributes significant resources to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which together killed nearly 4.2 million in 2007. MORE
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U.S. Efforts to Fight Global Malaria
U.S. malaria funding goes through two main streams - the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the President's Malaria Initiative - and some additional money is channeled through other bilateral programs. MORE