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US Aid After USAID From the Perspective of a Former Grant Recipient

US Aid After USAID From the Perspective of a Former Grant Recipient
Children have fun at the playground of a school opened by the United Nations Refugee Agency in the Altos de Florida shantytown on the outskirts of Bogota on Nov. 2, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Eitan Abramovich
Christine Balling
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The investigation into the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is revealing how bureaucrats perverted the agency’s purpose to “promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world.” As a result, the agency has been shuttered.
Christine Balling
Christine Balling
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Christine Balling is a senior vice president at the Institute of World Politics and a former senior adviser to the U.S. Special Operations South commander.