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Tag: USAID

Moving Beyond Band Aid

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date September 3, 2010

“Our time to change is now, and our time to change is short,” was the message that the new USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah delivered to a Town Hall meeting of the US Global Leadership coalition on May 5th this year. To sustain the commitment to spend billions of federal dollars on aid, he was warning, […]

Tags Andrew Mitchell, Bill Easterly, Bob Geldof, DFID, Live Aid, Raj Shah, Social Investment Task Force, USAID

The End of Aid’s Golden Age?

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date May 28, 2010

As rock star and aid champion Bono lies prone in his sick bed with a back injury that has forced him to cancel his forthcoming festival appearances with his band U2, he will be wondering not just about how to spend his summer but what to do next in his campaign for more aid for the developing world. While he can […]

Tags Aid, Bono, Britain, Canada, Commonwealth, DATA, development, France, G7, G8, Germany, Gleneagles, Italy, Japan, One Campaign, Ray Shah, Tony Blair, U2, USA, USAID