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Washington Post Reports On Administrator Shah's Goals For USAID
The Washington Post examines plans for reforming USAID, noting some of Administrator Rajiv Shah's comments during a recent speech at the Center for Global Development. "'This agency is no longer satisfied with writing big checks to big contractors and calling it development.' Those challenging words, spoken last week by [Shah], were just one part of his speech forging a new direction for an agency that has been in the backwater of U.S. foreign and national security policies for years. With little more than a year on the job, the 37-year-old medical doctor and research scientist, who once handled the $1.5 billion vaccine fund for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, criticized development programs designed to be 'extended in perpetuity while goals remain just out of reach,'" the newspaper writes.
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