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January 26, 2010

Six Lessons for Disaster Relief in Haiti

Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness, Inequality, Poverty Tags: , ,

John SimonI’m joined this week by John Simon, a visiting fellow here at the Center for Global Development. Before coming to the Center, John served in a range of influential positions, from U.S. Ambassador to the African Union to Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. During the George W. Bush administration, he was a member of the National Security Council, serving as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Relief, Stabilization, and Development.

That last role placed him at the center of the American response to natural disasters including the 2005 South Asia earthquake and Hurricane Stan. On the Wonkcast, he shares some of the lessons he learned through those experiences, expanding on a blog post he wrote last week (a post I highly recommend reading!).
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January 5, 2010

Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: U.S. Military Aid and Conflict in Colombia

Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Global Development, Latin America, Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Tags: , , , , ,

Oeindrila DubeMy guest this week is Oeindrila Dube, a postdoctoral fellow here at the Center for Global Development and an assistant professor of politics and economics at New York University. She is the author, along with Suresh Naidu, of a new paper that examines the relationships between U.S. military aid to Colombia and paramilitary violence and electoral participation in that country. Her paper reaches the unsettling conclusion that U.S. military assistance dollars may in fact be responsible for raising the levels of political violence.
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