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Investing in Africa's Future: U.S. Agricultural DevelopmentAssistance for Sub-Saharan Africa

A special panel discussion moderated by Peter McPherson to mark the release of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa -- Resources for the Future report: Investing in Africa's Future: U.S. Agricultural DevelopmentAssistance for Sub-Saharan Africa. download the Executive Summary.

Date & Time

Monday
Sep. 12, 2005
10:00am – 12:00pm ET

Overview

A special panel discussion moderated by Peter McPherson (founding Partnership co-chair) to mark the release of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa -- Resources for the Future report: Investing in Africa's Future: U.S. Agricultural Development Assistance for Sub-Saharan Africa.

Download the Executive Summary.

On the eve of the United Nations Millennium Development Summit, report co-authors Mike Taylor and Julie Howard will discuss key report findings on the disparity between policy-level support for broad-based economic growth in Africa and actual assistance levels. They will also trace the role of Congressional earmarks in limiting US agency flexibility to respond to country-driven development strategies, and provide recommendations on increasing the effectiveness of US assistance.

Mike Taylor, a German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Fellow, will link the report findings to new analysis of OECD-wide assistance for African Agricultural development and to the principles of the recent Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Lael Brainard (Vice President and Director, Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution), Steve Radelet (Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development), and Mamounou Toure (Counselor, Embassy of the Republic of Mali and African Ambassadors' Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development), will highlight broader issues on the level and effectiveness of overall U.S. assistance, and African leaders' commitment to rural-led economic growth. 

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Africa Program

The Africa Program works to address the most critical issues facing Africa and US-Africa relations, build mutually beneficial US-Africa relations, and enhance knowledge and understanding about Africa in the United States. The Program achieves its mission through in-depth research and analyses, public discussion, working groups, and briefings that bring together policymakers, practitioners, and subject matter experts to analyze and offer practical options for tackling key challenges in Africa and in US-Africa relations.    Read more

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