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Posts Tagged: AidU.S. Disaster Assistance and Migration Policy: Michael ClemensJune 6, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Global Development, Migration and Development Tags: Aid, Development, Haiti, humanitarian relief, Michael Clemens, Migration
On this week’s Wonkcast, I’m joined by senior fellow Michael Clemens to discuss why U.S. immigration policy should be part of the United States’ official humanitarian response to natural disasters. Michael, who leads CGD’s work on migration and development, recently commissioned a working paper to figure out what if anything can be done to open a channel for limited numbers of disaster refugees to enter the United States. Podcast: Play in new window | Download 2 Comments »What’s Up with the U.S. Global Health Initiative? Nandini OommanMay 17, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Global Health Policy Tags: Aid, Global Health Initiative, Nandini Oomman
When President Obama created the Global Health Initiative (GHI) in May 2009, health policy gurus welcomed it as a pioneering effort to make US involvement in global health more coherent, strategic and systematic. Two years later, there has been some modest progress but questions abound about how the initiative will take shape and deliver results. Nandini Oomman, senior associate at the Center for Global Development, joins me on the Wonkcast this week to assess the GHI’s progress on its second birthday. Her mounting impatience is nicely summed up in a blog post she wrote about the anniversary: Happy 2nd Birthday to the U.S. Global Health Initiative: Next Time I Want a Goody Bag! Podcast: Play in new window | Download Comment »Why U.S. Aid to Pakistan Still Makes Sense: Nancy BirdsallMay 9, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Tags: Aid, Development, foreign assistance, Nancy Birdsall, Pakistan, US
Why are we providing some $1.5 billion per year in development assistance to a country that couldn’t be bothered to find bin Laden? Now that Osama is dead, what the heck are we still doing in Pakistan? On this special edition of the Global Prosperity Wonkcast I asked these provocative questions of Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Read More… Podcast: Play in new window | Download 2 Comments »Not Too Late to Fix U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan: Molly Kinder and Wren ElhaiApril 25, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Poverty Tags: Aid, Development, Molly Kinder, Pakistan, Wren Elhai
I have two guests on the show this week, senior policy analyst Molly Kinder and research and communications assistant Wren Elhai. Molly and Wren have been working closely with CGD president Nancy Birdsall to make sense of the U.S. development strategy in Pakistan and to suggest ways that it could be more effective. After more than a year of Washington-based study and consultations, the three of them recently visited Pakistan to get feedback on their draft recommendations ahead of the release of their final report (for background on the project and a series of open letters, see here). Podcast: Play in new window | Download 1 Comment »Benchmarking America: The 2009 Commitment to Development IndexOctober 22, 2009Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness, Global Development, Private Investment, Trade Tags: Aid, Commitment to Development Index, David Roodman, Environment, Investment, Migration, Security, Technology, Trade
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When a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti last year the U.S. government and public moved quickly to aid the survivors. The response was swift and compassionate. But America did not do something simple and low-cost that could have helped the survivors of this horrible event. It did not crack open the door and admit a small number of them to the United States.
The United States has committed $1.5 billion per year over five years in an effort to support development in Pakistan, a fragile, nuclear-armed state of almost 190 million people that is in the frontline of the struggle against Islamic extremism. So, how’s that working out?
Congratulations to Sweden for ranking first in CGD’s 2009 Commitment to Development Index (CDI) for the first time since the creation of the Index in 2003. The United States, meanwhile, manages only a meager 17th place among the 22 wealthy countries ranked. In Benchmarking America, our second Global Prosperity Wonkcast, I ask CDI architect David Roodman to tell us why Sweden ranks first, why the United States gets such a mediocre score, and why Japan and Korea once again fall at the bottom of the list. Whether or not you are a podcast listener, I urge you to take a look at the greatly enhanced 2009 CDI 
