Foreign Aid 3

Author
Affiliation

Jeremy Springman

University of Pennsylvania

Logistics

Assignments and Upcoming

  • Today
  • Wednesday (4/4)

Agenda


  1. Overview of Foreign Aid
  2. Briggs (2016)
  3. Briggs (2021)
  4. Final Project Assignment 2

U.S. Foreign Aid: An Obituary

Arenas

  • Health
  • Soft Power
  • Democracy and governance

Health

  • HIV: 20.6 million people (600k children) no longer receiving treatment
  • Tuberculosis: 10.6 million cases and 2.2 million deaths will not be prevented
  • Nutrition: HKI has stopped a programme that provides nutrition for 5.6 million children
  • Nutrition: In Sudan, ~80% of emergency food kitchens are closed
  • Nutrition: In Ethiopia, foods to treat ~1 million severely malnourished children will run out by May

severe acute malnutrition: cut off treatment for 2.3 million children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This would lead to 369,000 extra child deaths a year that would otherwise have been prevented.

The World Bank estimates that every $1 invested in tackling undernutrition returns $23 in value in terms of child survival, human capital development and economic prosperity

Health

Soft Power