Campaign 2012: Foreign Aid

Whoever is in the White House in 2013 will have to retain the relevancy of U.S. foreign aid programs in an environment where the role of official foreign assistance from governments has dramatically reduced, says Isobel Coleman, director of CFR's Civil Societies, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.

The next administration will likely continue to shift aid resources away from Iraq and Afghanistan, and away from middle-income countries towards poorer countries, Coleman says.

The United States will also seek opportunities to collaborate with the private sector and other countries' foreign aid programs to maximize the impact of foreign assistance efforts, she says.

This video is part of Campaign 2012, a series of video briefings on the top foreign policy issues debated in the run-up to the 2012 elections: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...


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[Feeltheh8]

Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. -Ron Paul

[pcdsgh]

Please stop with such excessive descriptions, because the world is much better than that.

[Lance Winslow]

A President of the United States of America, the greatest nation ever created in all of human history ought to be able to handle absolutely anything that comes his/her way. Not worried about it.

[general0033]

The U.S government should stop giving billions of dollars to apartheid israel

[Tas von Gleichen]

As a matter of fact, I believe there was a report that some of that foreign aid was stolen or got lost. Iraq has tones of oil they had enough foreign aid. Afghanistan is a different story.

[Licmycat]

This video is currently unavailable. And I could only read the description so I will say this: before you go feeding other people our gov. dam sure should make SURE that everyone of our people in OUR nation is full of food and has a place to sleep. Or I will divorce you and pledge my dis-allegiance.