Development Assistance and Governance Initiative

The United States, the locomotive of the world, is growing at a reasonable pace. However, this pace is not enough to trundle a world in which Europe and Japan are growing at very low rates and the Chinese economy is cooling-off rapidly.

[I applaud USAID Administrator Raj] Shah’s focus on agricultural productivity such as improved fertilizer techniques and drought-resistant seeds, an emphasis that fell out of favor in development circles after the 1990s.