CGD Blog Post Examines Foreign Aid Aspects Of Trump Administration’s FY18 Budget Request May 25, 2017 News Summary Center for Global Development’s “U.S. Development Policy”: President Trump’s First Budget Slashes Foreign Aid Erin Collinson, senior associate for policy outreach at CGD, discusses the administration’s budget request for FY 2018, examining proposed funding cuts for the Department of State and Foreign Operations (5/24).
World Health Assembly Approves WHO Program Budget May 25, 2017 News Summary WHO: Seventieth World Health Assembly update “Delegates at the World Health Assembly [Wednesday] approved the organization’s proposed program budget of U.S.$4421.5 million for the biennium, which includes a three percent (or U.S.$28 million) increase in Member State assessed contributions for 2018-2019. This approved budget sets out the organization’s priorities in…
ODI Director Examines Impacts Of Proposed U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts On Health Care In Developing Countries May 25, 2017 News Summary Overseas Development Institute: Trump’s proposed aid cuts: the view from Uganda Alex Thier, executive director of ODI, discusses how the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to U.S. foreign assistance could affect health care in developing countries and Uganda specifically, writing, ” [T]he U.S. can’t afford not to provide a basic minimum…
U.S. President Trump Should Push For Political Solution In Yemen To Help Alleviate Humanitarian Crisis May 25, 2017 News Summary New York Times: Will President Trump Help Save Yemen? Editorial Board “Add cholera to the famine threat and other crises that are devastating Yemen. More than 360 people have died of the disease in recent weeks, and thousands more are at risk. All that is unfolding against a civil war…
U.S. Foreign Aid Must Focus On Needs Of Recipient Nations, Will Not Be Successful If Marketed As ‘America First’ May 25, 2017 News Summary Devex: Opinion: ‘America First’ doesn’t work in foreign aid Eric Bjornlund, co-founder and president of Democracy International, and adjunct professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University “…We must help our development partners around the world to see how the policy and institutional changes we recommend work for them.…
U.S. Should Continue To Invest In U.S. Foreign Assistance As Part Of ‘America First’ Strategy May 25, 2017 News Summary New York Times: Colin Powell: American Leadership — We Can’t Do It for Free Colin Powell, secretary of state from 2001 to 2005 “…The administration’s proposal, announced Tuesday, to slash … the State Department and foreign assistance budget signals an American retreat, leaving a vacuum that would make us far…
Kaiser Family Foundation Budget Summary Analyzes Global Health Aspects Of President’s FY18 Budget Request May 24, 2017 News Summary Kaiser Family Foundation: White House Releases FY18 Budget Request This budget summary highlights global health-related funding proposals contained in President Trump’s FY 2018 budget request released on Tuesday. The request includes significant cuts to global health including a decline in funding provided to the State Department and USAID, which represents…
White House Releases FY18 Budget Request May 24, 2017 News Summary The White House released its FY 2018 budget request to Congress on May 23, 2017, which includes significant cuts to global health funding. It seeks to shift the U.S. approach to development, stating that, the request “prioritizes and focuses foreign assistance in regions and on programs that advance U.S. national…
Trump Administration’s FY18 Budget Proposal Seeks Cuts To Global Health & Food Assistance, Other Foreign Aid, Biomedical Research Programs May 24, 2017 News Summary Devex: Trump budget thrusts U.S. foreign aid into a political fight “…For more than a decade, U.S. engagement in global development efforts has stood as a rare exception to Washington’s constant partisan warfare, with both Democrats and Republicans tending to agree that relatively small investments in developing countries benefit U.S.…