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...Natsios is responding to widely held misgivings about USAID. The Bush administration's new approach to foreign aid is based on making more effective use of U.S. tax dollars sent overseas. And many officials, notably Treasury Secretary O'Neill, have pointed to the failures of the past and argue that a radically different approach is the only way to justify increasing U.S. aid contributions - which are the lowest on a per capita basis of any major industrial nation...
...judge Bush may later attempt to appoint to the Supreme Court. Secondly, Bush’s proposed budget is unequivocally hostile to reproductive rights. Bush included $33 million in abstinence-only sex education in his budget, plans to eliminate funds for the United Nations Population Fund and cut the USAID portion of the international family planning budget by $21.5 million...
...South Africa's famous 20,000-sq-km Kruger Park with Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park and a huge big-game reserve in Mozambique. Organizers say the park, known as the gkg (Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou), could become one of the planet's top ecotourist destinations. The World Bank, usaid and the German Development Bank are helping pay for research, infrastructure and the development of villages on or near the transnational game corridors where the animals will roam...
...project helping Russia in the transition from Communism to a market economy. The suit alleges that Schleifer and Hay, along with their wives, both financial professionals operating in the Russian capital market, profited from conflict-of-interest investments. They are also charged with using U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds for their own private operations. More importantly, the suit implicates Harvard University, alleging that it failed to supervise and report known wrongdoings. Schleifer and Hay were working through the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), which received $40 million in grants from the USAID for this project...
...University relieved both Shleifer and Hayof their duties at HIID in the wake of USAID'scharges...