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Residents celebrate the return of Lucien Ambunga, the Catholic parish priest of the village, after he recovered from Ebola and returned to the village of Itipo, Equateur province, June 2018.

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How Congo Beat the Last Ebola Outbreak

International cooperation was crucial to beating the last outbreak of Ebola. It will be equally crucial for the next one.

Ariana A. Berengaut

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Foreign Aid Aug 6, 2018 Snapshot

How Congo Beat the Last Ebola Outbreak

International cooperation was crucial to beating the last outbreak of Ebola. It will be equally crucial for the next one.

Ariana A. Berengaut

Foreign Aid Nov 3, 2017 Snapshot

Blockchain and Global Health

Waste and fraud are too common in the global health sector. Blockchain could help change that.

Brian M. Till, Salim Afshar, Alex W. Peters, and John G. Meara

A child receiving a polio vaccination near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, December 2015.

Economic Development Oct 10, 2017 Snapshot

Will Russian-Saudi Relations Continue to Improve?

Russia’s new Saudi ties show that President Vladimir Putin’s sway in the Middle East remains on the upswing.

Anna Borshchevskaya

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabian King Salman attend a welcoming ceremony ahead of their talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, October 2017.

Foreign Aid Oct 4, 2017 Snapshot

Don't Fund Syria's Reconstruction

Syria’s reconstruction cannot be dictated or meaningfully shaped by Western donors—at least not to any satisfactory political ends.

Sam Heller

A man walks past damaged buildings in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, August 2017.

Foreign Aid Aug 11, 2017 Snapshot

The Portfolio Model of Foreign Assistance

It is best to recognize that foreign assistance is an investment that sustains the United States’ global leadership in the long run.

Alicia Phillips Mandaville

A Philippine army soldier counts boxes containing tent material from U.S. relief organisation USAID as he prepares the load to be deployed by airlift by the U.S. Air Force to victims of super typhoon Haiyan, at a Manila airport, November 2013.

Economic Development Dec 1, 2016 Snapshot

Rethinking U.S. National Security

To address the threats posed by instability in the developing world, the United States should consolidate its aid and development agencies into a cabinet-level...

J. Brian Atwood and Andrew Natsios

A U.S. helicopter carrying humanitarian assistance and disaster relief supplies in the Philippine Sea, south of Japan, March 2011.

Economic Development July/August 2016 Essay

The Innovative Finance Revolution

In recent years, financiers—working closely with governments and nongovernmental organizations—have begun merging private capital markets with public systems in ways...

Georgia Levenson Keohane and Saadia Madsbjerg

Liquidity crisis: a woman in a dry riverbed in Mauritania, June 2007.

Economic Development January/February 2016 Essay

Prosperity Rising

Since the 1990s, the world has seen unprecedented progress: one billion people have escaped extreme poverty, average incomes have doubled, and infant death rates have...

Steven Radelet

Administering a polio vaccine in Karachi, Pakistan, October 2014.

Economic Development Oct 12, 2015 Snapshot

Worth Every Cent

Cash grants to the poor are as good as or better than many forms of traditional aid when it comes to reducing poverty. Yet for all the talk about giving cash, not that...

Michael Faye, Paul Niehaus, and Christopher Blattman

Villagers wait to open bank accounts so they can receive cash transfers

Foreign Aid Sep 21, 2015 Snapshot

Cheers to the Taxman

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” For a long time, though, in many developing countries, death...

Alex Thier

Politics & Society November/December 2014 Letter

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Democracy in Ukraine 

Carl Gershman

Economic Development Jun 26, 2014 Letter From

Afghanistan's Aid Bubble

Afghanistan seems to be holding its breath. Business has ground to a halt and middle-class Afghans are eyeing foreign escape routes as they send their money out of the...

Dorn Townsend

Afghan boys play on a destroyed car at a hilltop in Kabul October 18, 2012.

U.S. Foreign Policy July/August 2014 Letter

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Nurturing Nature

Eric G. Postel

Economics July/August 2014 Letter

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Don't Bank On It

Marisa L. Porges

From the Archives May/June 2014 Essay

Show Them the Money

Cutting-edge research shows that giving things to the world’s poor is much more expensive than one might expect. When it comes to reducing poverty, therefore, simply...

Christopher Blattman and Paul Niehaus

Girls walk in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, February 4, 2014.

Economics Jan 5, 2014 Snapshot

Development Bloat

Economic development has come to mean too many things -- so many things, in fact, that it now mostly serves to harm the world’s poor.

Marc F. Bellemare

A shipment of aid to the Philippines, November 17, 2013.

Political Development November/December 2013 Essay

Bridge to Somewhere

Investing in international infrastructure development, a $60 trillion dollar industry, is not only about dollars and cents, it is also a strategic imperative. Yet the...

Jose W. Fernandez

On the building site of the Imboulou Dam, Congo, 2007.

Foreign Aid Oct 13, 2013 Snapshot

Charity Begins at Home

In China, many players, often with competing interests, are involved in shaping and implementing aid programs. And that makes it difficult for aid officials to impose...

Philippa Brant

Liberian children hold Chinese flags before the arrival of China's President Hu Jintao in Monrovia February 1, 2007.

Economic Development Oct 2, 2012 Snapshot

Missing in Africa

Africa's thriving democracies and economies, and its alarming transnational security threats, make it more important than ever to the United States. Obama, however,...

Todd Moss

Foreign Aid Aug 20, 2012 Snapshot

Not So Great Expectations

Earlier this year, the Obama administration requested that Congress establish a $770 million Middle East and North Africa Incentive Fund to “support citizens who have...

Nancy Birdsall, Milan Vaishnav, and Danny Cutherell

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How Congo Beat the Last Ebola Outbreak

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How Congo Beat the Last Ebola Outbreak

Blockchain and Global Health

Will Russian-Saudi Relations Continue to Improve?

Don't Fund Syria's Reconstruction

The Portfolio Model of Foreign Assistance

Rethinking U.S. National Security

The Innovative Finance Revolution

Prosperity Rising

Worth Every Cent

Cheers to the Taxman

Democracy in Ukraine

Afghanistan's Aid Bubble

Nurturing Nature

Don't Bank On It

Show Them the Money

Development Bloat

Bridge to Somewhere

Charity Begins at Home

Missing in Africa

Not So Great Expectations

With Growth Sagging, China Shifts Back to Socialism

Does Italy Threaten a New European Debt Crisis?

Africa Near the Bottom of World Bank's New Human Capital Index

What Latin America Should Tell China About Venezuela

The Link Between Foreign Languages and U.S. National Security

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Major Speech on Rakhine State

Creating a State Department Office for American State and Local Diplomacy

The Global Cost of the Eurozone’s 2012 Fiscal Coordination Failure

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