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A report by Landesa (then called the Rural Development Institute) providing input as Congress and the President review the U.S. bilateral foreign aid program. The authors discuss why foreign aid should be primarily concerned with poverty alleviation and broad-based sustainable development, and suggest changes needed to transform the bilateral foreign aid program into one primarily concerned with those goals. | Download PDF
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