Department of Development?

Some of the authors of a joint project between the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies presented their recommendations for transforming U.S. foreign assistance this morning. The full report, in book form, is available here in a preliminary version. One key recommendation is creating a cabinet level Department for Global Development. In effect, ...

Some of the authors of a joint project between the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies presented their recommendations for transforming U.S. foreign assistance this morning.

Some of the authors of a joint project between the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies presented their recommendations for transforming U.S. foreign assistance this morning.

The full report, in book form, is available here in a preliminary version. One key recommendation is creating a cabinet level Department for Global Development. In effect, this reorganization would "elevate development as a third pillar alongside diplomacy and defense" and adopt a British model for development policy.

The authors also graded the U.S. in their five key areas of foreign assistance. Here is the report card:

 Supporting Partners

 Countering Threats from Weak States

D

 Countering Security Threats

C

 Countering Humanitarian Threats

A

 Countering Transnational Threats (e.g. AIDS)

B

 

Needless to say, the report goes into greater depth than I can in a blog post in explaining how to improve these grades.

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