... The demand for quantifiably measurable data poses significant challenges for global health initiatives that are not centered on clinical activities or the distribution of tangible resources.  Drawing from ethnographic research with Konbit Sante, an American medical aid organization intervening...

... During the years after the war, many anthropologists transformed elements of their wartime service into governmental research, policy, development, or intelligence work. The U.S. State and Defense Departments at times drew on anthropological expertise to implement foreign aid projects...

... This chapter traces the North-South relations between international aid agencies and feminist movements in Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews at both ends of the aid chain, the chapter argues that the surprising appearance in the 1990s of market-based practices among...

... In this 2005 address to the university faculty, Richard Brodhead announces the Financial Aid Initiative and emphasizes the importance of expanding endowment support for need-based financial aid. He discusses Duke’s strengths in interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge in service to society...

...CHAPTER 7 Covert Aid For President Roosevelt, the worsening international security environment in 1938 coexisted with a deteriorating domestic situation. FDR’s New Deal did not end the Depression; the war economy of the Second World War did. Although economic conditions eased between...

...AIDS and Poverty Thabo Mbeki One of the most immense problems facing postapartheid South Africa is hiv/    aids. In recent years, epidemiologists have identified South Africa as the country with the highest number of infections—­nearly six million—­and one of the highest infection rates...