For an in depth enlightening analysis of the success and failure of economic sanctions see Backfire by Agathe Demarais, and how they inspire China & Russia to circumvent them and develop their own high tech capability.

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RT @ModernizeAid: Glad to see the National Security Strategy @WhiteHouse @StateDept prioritizes global development, highlights importance o….

RT @ModernizeAid: Exciting new research tool from MFAN member @aidtransparency to track @USAID funding to local organizations. Vital to hel….

Larry Garber @larryelections challenges the board of the National Endowment for Democracy to live up to President Reagan's commitment to respective the outcome of democratic elections

Read report on 2022 Aid Transparency Index for update of overall trends in development assistance.

With the release today of the 2022 AID Transparency Index comes recognition that the data provides a broad and deep look at what the development community is doing and needs to be sustained.

Digitalization needs to be build at the local level

Kristin Lord @kristin_lord reports on how nonprofits collectively can build social trust through delivering services and results.

Jordan Schwarz in The New Dealers traces US post-war international development cooperation to the economic liberalism and “state capitalism” – the domestic development - of New Deal programs such as the TVA and its noted chairman David Lilienthal.

Homi Kharas uses the model of the Marshall Plan to outline a Global Sustainability Program to address global climate finance

SecState Tony Blinken uses the lives of former Secretaries Madeline, Colin, and George to tell the next generation about the human side of success - remember your origins, remain a student, focus on the long-term

We should listen carefully to the critique of how the new UK development strategy address women's equality and rights

Conor Savory @CSIS explains how procurement reform is a key step for USAID implementation of locally led development

New paper explains how Digital Public Goods can accelerate the path to the Sustainable Development Goals

Local actors should be consulted systematically and regularly on USAID’s policies and programs to improve them based on partner needs and to live up to the values of shifting power, writes @_Jenny_Russell of @SavetheChildren.

The long history of support for locally led development rests on recognition that development comes from within a society & that international support should be collaborative, but practice has not lived up to declared policy, says @CSIS's James Michel.

Dan Honig @rambletastic explains why USAID needs to changes its operational processes in order to operationalize locally led development

can USAID move forward its efforts at localization - Larry Garber and Gretchen King share their thoughts.

Julie McCarthy explains why middle income countries have doubts about the new global minimal tax framework called Inclusive Framework -