List of Foreign Aid articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pakistan Has Lost Its ‘Angel of Mercy’
Abdul Sattar Edhi was his country’s greatest living hero. Here’s hoping that his legacy persists in the hands of a new generation of humanitarians.
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Hammer_image1 The Disappearance of Dahlia Yehia
A 25-year-old American traveled to Nepal to volunteer after the earthquake. She found a friendly host on Couchsurfing.com. She was never heard from again.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 USAID Should Become the Department of Nation-Building
Washington’s top development agency needs to focus on building governments, not democracies, in chaotic foreign countries.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why the World Humanitarian Summit Meeting in Turkey Really Does Matter
John Norris told Foreign Policy readers that the Istanbul conference would be irrelevant. It wasn’t.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Millions Left Behind in Afghanistan
With war intensifying as U.S. and NATO troops head home, promises made to help the millions of internally displaced are woefully unfulfilled.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Masters of Disasters?
The World Humanitarian Summit won’t solve the refugee crisis, but it’s an important first step to solving the really big problems.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The U.N.’s World Humanitarian Summit Is a Total Mess
The world urgently needs a new aid architecture to grapple with a massive, global refugee crisis. But this gathering in Istanbul could do more harm than good.
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Keenan_image_01-darker Dead Man’s Market and the Boy Gangs of Niger
Impoverished young men have menaced the city of Zinder with rapes and murders. Now Boko Haram wants to turn their ultra-violence into a weapon of war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stop Writing Pakistan Blank Checks
Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on development assistance have propped up the most repressive elements in Pakistani society. So it's time to alter the deal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Feeding Syrians Feeds the War
For-profit companies in Washington, D.C., are giving bread to starving Syrians. But despite best intentions, they are making peace harder to achieve.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Plan Colombia for Afghanistan
In the fight to rid Afghanistan of violent extremism, the central government needs greater resources to gain a decisive advantage.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How the U.N. Let Assad Edit the Truth of Syria’s War
As Syrian civilians starved to death, U.N. officials let the government in Damascus alter its master plan for saving lives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Look Homeward, Democracy Promoter
Here’s why it’s time for U.S. democracy assistance to start doing some work at home.