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The Cost of Foreign Aid in 2023
The world in 2023 looks very different than it did in the 1960s when we started doing US foreign aid. Right now, just as a very simple example, there's a $17 billion global health supply chain contract that's up for public tender. If we had more transparency around how much money was flowing to which organizations to do what, I think it would create enormous pressure on policymakers to ensure that more funding is actually flowing to those organizations that can have the most impact.