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<h3>Initiatives</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance">Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance</a></li> </ul> <h3>CGD Experts</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2680/">Steve Radelet</a></li> </ul> <h3>Publications</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16210/">New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15561/">Modernizing Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century: An Agenda for the Next U.S. President</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15423/">U.S. Assistance to Africa and the World: What Do the Numbers Say?</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9373/">Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money - Working Paper 96</a></li> </ul> <br/> </div> <div id="content-col1"> <div style="float: left"><p>Apr 20, 2009</p></div><div class="download-pdf" style="float:right;"><a target="_newfb" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111112081804/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1421593/&t=U.S. Assistance to Africa: A Call for Foreign Aid Reform--Testimony for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health"><img style="position: relative;top: -1px;" src="/web/20111112081804im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/facebook_share.png"></a>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111112081804/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CGDev">Tweet</a></div></p> <br clear="all"> <p class="detailDescrip"> <p>Senior fellow Steve Radelet testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health about the challenges and opportunities to reform U.S. foreign assistance to Africa.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111112081804/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Opinions/Radelet_Africa_Global_Health.pdf"><b>Download the testimony</b></a></p> <p>From Radelet's testimony:</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The Obama administration, Congress, military leaders and American voters have recognized that strong development policies and programs are critical to enhancing the U.S image in the world, achieving our foreign policy goals and increasing our national security. To reap these benefits from development, however, we must work with international partners and recipient governments in ways that demonstrate impact on the ground and show that we are reaching our key objectives in developing countries: stimulating economic growth and poverty reduction, promoting political stability and responding to humanitarian crises. </p> <div class="download-pdf" style="float:right;visibility:hidden;" id="div_bottom_share"><a target="_newfb" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111112081804/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1421593/&t=U.S. Assistance to Africa: A Call for Foreign Aid Reform--Testimony for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health"><img style="position: relative;top: -1px;" src="/web/20111112081804im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/facebook_share.png"></a>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111112081804/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CGDev">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111112081804js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_div = $("#div_bottom_share"); var offset = share_div.offset(); if(offset.top > 999){ document.getElementById('div_bottom_share').style.visibility = 'visible'; } </script>  <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td align="left"> <a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/section/contactus/">Contact Us</a> | <a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/section/about/presscenter/">Press Center</a> | <a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/section/about/employment/">Jobs</a> | <a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/section/about_enews/sitefeeds/">RSS</a> | <a href="/web/20111112081804/http://cgdev.org/section/about/donate/">Invest</a> </td> <td align="right"> © 2011, CGD. 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