Generic Plan The US should commit to meet Millennium goals and focus itss aid on the poorest nations Sachs 13 Sachs, Jeffery D. (Sachs is a world famous economist and is director at the Earth Institute at Columbia) Foreign Aid in “Chapter 3: Poverty: Can Reduce Poverty?” Controversies Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations, Edited by Peter Haas and John Hird, 2013, pp. 71–103., [Premier] U.S. development assistance should be based on The priorities for mainly the development commitments made in recent years, after considerable that the United States and the rest of the world have diplomatic and scientific discussions and negotiations. At the core of the effort should be the Millennium Development Goals, which are already the central organizing tool for most development agencies and multilateral development institutions around the world. MDGs have profound advantage not only of specifying explicit and quantitative The the targets, but aligning U.S. efforts with those of partner countries, also of automatically thereby massively leveraging American resources and expertise. The focus of the development challenge is in those regions still trapped in extreme poverty, or those places suffering extremely high burdens of hunger, disease, or lack of infrastructure. efforts This means that U.S. should be mainly directed toward sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, the Andean region, Haiti, and the remaining pockets of extreme poverty in South Asia. Development aid for middle-income countries (such as China, Brazil, and Mexico) should be scaled back accordingly, since these regions can generally finance their own investment needs.
Generic Plan The US should commit to meet Millennium goals and focus itss aid on the poorest nations Sachs 13 Sachs, Jeffery D. (Sachs is a world famous economist and is director at the Earth Institute at Columbia) “Chapter 3: Poverty: Can Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty?” Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations, Edited by Peter Haas and John Hird, 2013, pp. 71–103., [Premier] The priorities for U.S. development assistance should be based mainly on the development commitments that the United States and the rest of the world have made in recent years, after considerable diplomatic and scientific discussions and negotiations. At the core of the effort should be the Millennium Development Goals, which are already the central organizing tool for most development agencies and multilateral development institutions around the world. The MDGs have the profound advantage not only of specifying explicit and quantitative targets, but also of automatically aligning U.S. efforts with those of partner countries, thereby massively leveraging American resources and expertise. The focus of the development challenge is in those regions still trapped in extreme poverty, or those places suffering extremely high burdens of hunger, disease, or lack of infrastructure. This means that U.S. efforts should be mainly directed toward sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, the Andean region, Haiti, and the remaining pockets of extreme poverty in South Asia. Development aid for middle-income countries (such as China, Brazil, and Mexico) should be scaled back accordingly, since these regions can generally finance their own investment needs.