Getting to a ‘Grand Bargain’ for Aid Reform: The Basic Framework for U.S. Foreign Assistance
In this paper, Jean Arkedis focuses on understanding why long-term development is often subjugated to other objectives in the day-to-day planning processes of the U.S. government. She proposes one way to ensure that funding choices are made more rationally and systematically: by aligning the differing goals of aid more explicitly with redefined foreign assistance budget accounts. Doing this would encourage the administration and Congress to set priorities while taking into account the tradeoffs,
