“If we make the choice to invest in the future and not just the right now, we can usher in a new era of progress.” USAID Administrator Gayle Smith, March 9, 2016 Administrator Gayle Smith gave her first major speech this month at an event co-sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution on Capitol Hill. Senators David Perdue (R-GA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) made introductory remarks that demonstrated the strong bipartisan support that exists in Congress for USAID and international development. In her remarks, Administrator Smith emphasized that USAID is “making smarter investments with our assistance; leveraging private capital to scale our impact; and supporting governments, small businesses and entrepreneurs to mobilize domestic resources for development.” She envisioned a future where we “answer volatility with stability, injustice with rights, despair with opportunity, and conflict with peace.”...
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