Michael Igoe
Senior Reporter at Devex
Reporting on the politics of global development @devex. Send me tips! michael dot igoe at https://t.co/VJi8ec6Nuc
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5 days ago |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
Elon Musk claimed U.S. aid officials refused to produce evidence of their results. Then he destroyed all of the records showing U.S. aid results, eliminating a body of knowledge that could have been mined to transform the agency. This is a special Saturday edition of Devex Pro Insider from Senior Reporter Michael Igoe.
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
A clash of organizational cultures and missions looms as the State Department is set to take over what’s left of USAID. Welcome to the first installment of a special Saturday edition of Devex Pro Insider from Senior Reporter Michael Igoe. For the next few months, this newsletter will tackle some of the biggest questions about the future of U.S. foreign aid, with insider reporting and analysis delivered straight to your inbox. U.S. foreign aid is in a strange state of suspended animation.
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2 weeks ago |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
While much of the U.S. foreign aid architecture faces elimination or budget reductions, the outlook for the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation appears more bullish under President Donald Trump’s second term in office. Benjamin Black, Trump’s nominee to lead DFC, testified Tuesday at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about what the agency might look like if he is confirmed.
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3 weeks ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene |Michael Igoe
The U.S. House of Representatives is beginning work on a bill to reauthorize and reorganize the State Department, signaling that Congress plans to weigh in on the department’s future even as the White House barrels towards the July 1 deadline it set to restructure State.
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1 month ago |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
Global health is in crisis, with severe budget cuts rippling outward from key donors like the U.S. government, to multilateral institutions facing budget shortfalls, to community health workers who are being asked to do more with less. It’s a moment of turmoil that has many looking for new tools that might help ease these burdens and guide global health efforts into its next, uncertain era. For some, technology like artificial intelligence has a key role to play in that transition.
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Hearing that Trump is about to double down on the constitutional crisis. A President cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by executive order. That’s what a despot - who wants to steal the taxpayers money to enrich his billionaire cabal - does. Watch USAID tonight.
RT @sarajerving: In a Saturday memo, USAID staffers were given more details on the "complete halt" in foreign assistance and told "every pr…
RT @devex: JOIN US TODAY at 12 p.m. ET for a rapid-response briefing on the new US directive that freezes foreign aid spending & halts work…
