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USTDA's roots date to the 1970's, when the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) coordinated a government-wide "Reimbursable Development Program" (RDP) to provide foreign countries continued access to U.S. development advice, U.S. technical assistance, U.S. equipment, and U.S. technology "even after they have reached the stage where they no longer need to rely on ...
USAID was subsequently established by the executive order of President John F. Kennedy, who sought to unite several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency. [9] USAID became the first U.S. foreign assistance organization whose primary focus was long-term socioeconomic development.
U.S. development finance efforts were consolidated under the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in 1969 by President Richard Nixon, transferring responsibility from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The goal was to promote a more business-like management of development finance policy.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is responsible for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, abuse, and violations of law and to promote economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the operations of USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the United States African Development Foundation, and the Inter-American Foundation.
The principal goal of the initiative was to facilitate deeper and more effective partnerships between African and U.S. institutes of higher education with a focus on contributing more effectively to key priority development areas such as science and technology, agriculture, environment and natural resources, engineering, business, management ...
Economic forecasting is the process of making predictions about the economy. Forecasts can be carried out at a high level of aggregation—for example for GDP, inflation, unemployment or the fiscal deficit—or at a more disaggregated level, for specific sectors of the economy or even specific firms.
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IBI is a designated woman-owned small business, board member of the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM) and member of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI). In 2016, IBI was ranked in the number three spot in Devex’s list of top women-owned USAID contractors. [4]