By Christine Ro
First of all, to be very clear: the private sector cannot replace the thousands of staff members, the billions of grant dollars, and the decades of experience that have made the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the world’s most important government funder of development. The Trump administration’s demolition of USAID is already interrupting clinical trials, not to mention halting demining, anti-trafficking, and violence prevention efforts around the world, to name just a few areas of work.
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