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Spending Cuts Bill Hits Defense and Foreign Aid
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Tea partyers insistent on cutting military spending and foreign aid will find plenty to like in the deal struck by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders. No money for an alternative engine for the multibillion-dollar Joint Strike Fighter. Millions of dollars in cuts for the United Nations. A major reduction in spending on the Global Agriculture and Food Security Fund. It all adds up to billions less for the Pentagon and the State Department than what Obama had requested for the budget year ending Sept. 30, a reflection of the widespread congressional belief that ...
Egypt, Deficit Bring Calls to End Foreign Aid -- But Should We?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The unrelated crises roiling Egypt and the federal budget have at least one thing in common: They both have brought calls to eliminate foreign aid. Just as Punxsutawney Phil crawled from his hole this week, the perennial debate over sending taxpayer money to foreign lands emerged once more on Capitol Hill. In its effort to get a handle on the turmoil, the Obama administration raised the specter of ending military aid to Egypt. The second-largest recipient of U.S. largesse after Israel, Egypt has gotten more than $250 billion in weaponry since 1950, and that doesn't count the ...
US Pledges Additional $60 Million for Pakistan Flood Relief
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- After weeks of disastrous floods that have left a fifth of Pakistan underwater, the world has begun to take notice. Though private donations are not yet keeping pace, governments are stepping up their promises of aid to the devastated country. On Thursday afternoon, the U.S. pledged an additional $60 million, bringing its total commitment to $150 million, according to Reuters. Disasters by their nature tend to make for apples-to-oranges comparisons. Still, a look at the hard numbers for the Pakistani floods and other past crises gives a sense of their scope. Though the current ...
Poverty Rx: Cash Payments Are Best Way to Help Poor, Study Finds
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyHow do we end world poverty? Boy, that's a head-scratcher. It's right up there with "Does God exist?" and "What's the meaning of life?" And here's a radical answer: Give the poor some money. And don't tell them what to do with it. Sounds crazy, right? Not according to three scholars in the United Kingdom. In a new study titled "Just Give Money to the Poor," Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme argue that giving small amounts of cash on a regular basis to poor people may actually be the most effective way to lift developing countries out of poverty. The scholars ground their ...
Essay: Despite Strong Talk, Interest in Haiti Is Waning
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (May 22) -- Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., stepped into the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on Haiti and began with strong words. "I think we all understand that the world has certainly witnessed Haiti suffer perhaps the worst disaster that our hemisphere has ever seen. "And while we don't see the CNN reports on a daily basis that we did previously, and there isn't the media crisis of urgency that the public is witnessing on a daily basis, the truth is that, four months later, the tragedy is still unfolding." Emily Troutman for AOL While U.S. attention on Haiti is ...
Titanic Survivors Study: A Closer Look at Self-Preservation
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyYou're on a sinking ship and you have just 10 minutes to make a decision: Do you save yourself, or do you help the other passengers to safety? Now, imagine the same scenario, except you have two hours longer to make your decision. Do you make the same choice? Maybe not, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the University of Zurich, the Center for Research in Economics, and Queensland University compared the survivor profiles of passengers from two famous shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, to see how they ...
US Aid Recipients Among Most Corrupt Governments
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- A ranking of the world's most corrupt countries released Tuesday put a harsh spotlight on many of the top recipients of U.S. aid. Out of the top 10 foreign aid recipients in 2008, six countries -- Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, Kenya and Nigeria -- were ranked in the bottom half of the 180 countries reviewed. And despite getting U.S. funds, the ranking had worsened from last year to this for six of the 10 -- Afghanistan, Jordan, Pakistan, South Africa, Colombia and Nigeria. Gerald Hyman, president of the Hills Program on Governance at the Center for Strategic and ...
The G8 Summit Meltdown, and Why Silvio Berlusconi Needs a Holiday
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyPoor Italy. First, there were the sex scandals. Now, it looks as if the upcoming G8 summit may well crash and burn. Silvio Berlusconi just can't catch a break. ...
Foreign Aid at Risk In Budget Battle
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Millennium Challenge Corporation, a little known but well regarded Federal agency charged with overseeing development projects in fledgling democracies from South America to Africa and beyond, is in danger of seeing its budget slashed in half in the current budget battle between Congress and the White House. Proposed as a signature initiative of the Bush Administration and enacted by Congress in 2004 with bipartisan support, the MCC has been hailed by foreign aid specialists as a novel approach to development in the third world. Now, however, the agency's fiscal year 2008 funding may ...
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