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USAID Staff Cry for Their Fiefdom

USAID Staff Cry for Their Fiefdom
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The largest foreign aid agency on earth has, courts willing, abruptly closed its doors in the past week and sent most of its staff home. Finding that their virtue has no place to strut its worth, the response of many has been indignation and assurances of retaliation. Many of them had been working from home for years but now must rouse themselves to show such indignation for being sent (i.e., remaining) home on full pay, like being told to continue as normal, perhaps, but in a way that exposes uncomfortable realities to those in the community who are actually paying them.
David Bell
David Bell
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David Bell, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, Wash.
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