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Farewell, CIDA
(April 2, 2013) Now-abolished foreign aid pork barrel won’t be missed. Patricia Adams’ epitaph for CIDA. Continue reading
Bill Gates: Foreign Aid 2.0
(May 27, 2011) Bill Gates’ version of foreign aid should look to Microsoft’s original recipe for success to empower Africa. Continue reading
International aid’s ‘dirty secret’
(February 10, 2011) Images from the protests in Egypt have put the relationship between funding security and development in the spotlight Continue reading
NGOs in Haiti face new questions about effectiveness
(February 1, 2011) In the days after the earth shook and the government collapsed, the municipal nursing home here because one of the most desperate sights in Haiti, as old people lay swaddled in dirty sheets, huddled in cramped tents, begging visitors for water. Continue reading
Africa’s stolen medicine
(January 27, 2011) In Geneva on Wednesday, Stephen Harper predicted that the $40-billion United Nations initiative on maternal care will create a “wave of hope” across the developing world. No one doubts that hope is desperately needed. In Canada, a woman’s lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth is one in 5,600. In Niger, it’s one in 16. Continue reading
PI Exclusive: Internal documents obtained by PI show CIDA failed to detect fraud
(January 17, 2011) Probe International obtains internal CIDA documents that show the aid agency failed to detect the fraudulent use of its funds in Zambia. Continue reading
Patricia Adams: Haiti needs rights
(January 11, 2011) One option for Haiti is to make it a U.S. territory like Puerto Rico, writes Probe International’s Executive Director, Patricia Adams. Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Aid, Haiti
Tagged Bill Clinton, Corruption, development assistance, Foreign Aid, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Haiti Reconstruction Fund, IHRC, Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, Monroe Doctrine, ODA, Patricia Adams, Port-au-Prince, Probe International, property rights, Puerto Rico, Rene Preval
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Haiti: ‘The Republic of NGOs’
(November 24, 2010) As Haiti looks to the future, Probe International’s Executive Director Patrica Adams questions a reliance on foreign aid, writes Alanna Wallace from The Cord. Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Aid, Haiti
Tagged Dam, Foreign Aid, foreign aid and development, Haiti foreign aid, Patricia Adams, Probe International
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