In a newly published op-ed, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Paul Wolfowitz, Mark Palmer, and Patrick Glenn emphasize that foreign assistance alone is a poor solution to reducing poverty and ineffective at improving governance in transitional democracies. Instead, the United Nations should establish Millennium Governance Goals.

Progress against poverty requires measuring countries by the rule of law, judicial independence and free speech.

This is Africa’s year. G8 has made Africa its cause for the year and the Live 8 concerts around the globe have enlivened the issue for hundreds of millions of people. The UN heads of state meet September 14, 2005, to discuss and assess the five-year progress of the Millennium...

Foreign aid programs of the past decades have attempted to reduce poverty while introducing necessary reforms in recipient countries through “conditionality”--the practice of requiring economic or political policy changes in exchange for aid. It is now generally agreed that these programs have failed. Recipient governments have pretended to reform, and...

The Obama administration has decided that promoting economic development around the world is essential, but it seems to be doing the same things to tackle the same problems as the Bush administration.

US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

While the United States leads the world in foreign assistance, it has had difficulty meeting the development challenges of the twenty-first century with policies stuck in the twentieth.

While the United States leads the world in foreign assistance, it has had difficulty meeting the development challenges of the twenty-first century with policies stuck in the twentieth.