Guest Blog by Tom Dichter, January 7, 2016
About a year ago the U.S. government’s foreign aid agency (USAID) completed a new mission statement based on polling some 1500 of its staff members.
“We partner to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing our security and prosperity.”
I’ve been working in international development for fifty years and I’ve rarely seen as mindless a statement coming from any entity devoted to promoting development (Recall that USAID stands for the “United ...
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