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Unlocking Aid: A Campaign to Modernize the Way the Government Works
CNN's John Defterios talks with Jordan Belkacem, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) The agency is trying to modernize the way US foreign aid works and get more results from its investments in war-torn countries around the world. A lot of research has already been done on what interventions are most likely to have the highest impacts or dollars saved per dollar spend. But how do we create incentives? How do we address the procurement barriers that keep government investments from flowing to those solutions which will have the biggest impact?