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Feb 4, 2025 | 
lawfaremedia.org | George Ingram |Anthony F. Pipa |Jonathan D. Katz
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Today’s episode is a recording of Feb. 3 livestream that Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson hosted with George Ingram and Tony Pipa, both Senior Fellows in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, and Jonathan Katz, Senior Director of the Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security project also at Brookings—all three of whom are also alumni of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
lawfaremedia.org | George Ingram |Jonathan D. Katz |Anthony F. Pipa
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
brookings.edu | George Ingram
Editor's note: As a meeting summary, this page summarizes discussions held at a Brookings Center for Sustainable Development private roundtable in December 2024.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | George Ingram
The 2019 Global Fragility Act (GFA) and the resulting U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability (SPCPS) are textbook models for how external experts can positively work with policymakers to shape U.S. legislation and strategy. But they also demonstrate that even the best designed laws and strategies will struggle to confront entrenched bureaucratic realities and ways of doing business.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | George Ingram
Localization, putting local stakeholders rather than donors in the driver’s seat of development, is becoming the accepted mode of development, at least in theory, if not in practice. As one of the least understood elements of localization is the role of international actors, in April 2024, the Brookings Center for Sustainable Development hosted a roundtable to seek to define that role—or roles—better.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Brahima Coulibaly |Landry Signé |George Ingram |Priya Vora
The 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opened last week in New York City. As world leaders come together to discuss how to make progress on intertwined global challenges, these are the issues experts from the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings will be watching closely.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | George Ingram
Editor's note: This piece updates a 2019 article originally published by The Ripon Forum. Eight decades of American foreign aid has generated confusion among U.S. taxpayers on how and how many tax dollars are spent on foreign assistance. As we are in the midst of an election cycle, it is important that candidates, voters, and media have a better understanding of how taxpayer dollars are currently used to advance our national interest.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | George Ingram
Questions about development finance and activity take a number of forms, for example: What are donors doing and where? In which sectors are donors engaged? Can International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data be used to make decisions? What follows is a discussion and examples of how, with a little effort and care, one can mine the IATI database for valuable information and insights about where aid is going and for what purpose.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | George Ingram |Priya Vora
Facing an existential threat to its sovereignty, Ukraine has demonstrated the essential role of e-government—built on foundational digital infrastructure—in bolstering not only government efficiency but also national resilience.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | George Ingram |Priya Vora
ContextAs of the end of 2023, some 14 million Ukrainians had fled their homes since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022—5.1 million internally and 6.2 million throughout Europe.1 This represents the largest human displacement crisis in the world today.
