Overcoming USAID's Challenges

As USAID marks its fiftieth anniversary, Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg sits down with CFR's Isobel Coleman to discuss the challenges the organization faces. Results have become ever more important as the organization struggles in an environment of constrained budgets, Steinberg says. "It's not enough anymore to be going out and trying to encourage inputs or outputs. We have to demonstrate that we are achieving outcomes, that we are encouraging sustainability of development, that, basically, what we are trying to do is put ourselves out of business."

http://www.cfr.org/economic-development/overcoming-usaids-challenges/p26701

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How can USAID do anything about agriculture when there is still massive collusion between the US government and Big Agriculture? 3rd-world countries that are able to improve their farming thanks to aid will merely be targeted by "free trade and open markets" that will depress the economic viability of their farming sectors.