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Development & Diplomacy

AP NEWS

Trump Budget to Include $100M for Ivanka's Women's Fund |
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Catherine Lucey

President Donald Trump's 2020 budget proposal will include $100
million for a global women's fund spearheaded by his daughter
Ivanka Trump. The White House said the budget, expected to be released
Monday, will include the funding for the Women's Global
Development and Prosperity Initiative. The administration last month
launched the government-wide project, which she leads.

VOX
Want Less Poverty in the World? Empower Women. |

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Sean Illing

The single greatest antidote to poverty and social stagnation is the
emancipation of women. Wherever this has been tried, wherever women
have been empowered to do as they wish, the economy and the culture
have been radically improved. A new book by Augusto Lopez-Claros, a
senior fellow at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University, and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, an Iranian writer and novelist,
is among the first to comprehensively test this proposition by
surveying data from 189 countries.

DEVEX

USAID Tried - and Failed - to Convince Saudi Arabia Not to
Strike Civilian Targets in Yemen |

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Michael Igoe

At the start of the conflict in Yemen, which has now devolved into the
world's worst humanitarian crisis, U.S. officials worked behind
closed doors to convince Saudi Arabia's leaders not to target
humanitarian and civilian sites for airstrikes. Those efforts largely
failed due to a lack of high-level political will within the Saudi
government, according to two former U.S. officials who testified on
Capitol Hill Wednesday.

REUTERS
Rise in Populism Eroding Women's Rights, Global Leaders Warn |

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Lin Taylor

From access to abortion to equal work opportunities, women's
rights are being eroded by a rise in global populism, a group of
female leaders warned on Monday. There has been a resurgence in
nationalist-populist sentiment in many countries around the world,
from Brazil to Turkey, the Philippines, Russia and the United States.

DEVEX
New WHO Structure Revealed |
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Jenny Lei Ravelo

The World Health Organization has revamped its senior management
structure. The revamp, laid out in an internal memo sent to staff and
seen by Devex, includes the creation of new positions and divisions
which will help WHO achieve its triple billion targets in its new
five-year strategic plan.

BUZZFEED NEWS

Trump's Cuts to Aid for Palestinian Women Have Totally Disrupted
Women's Breast Cancer Treatments |

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Megha Rajagopolan

Women confronting breast cancer are being hit hard after the Trump
administration stopped USAID programs benefiting Palestinians, say aid
groups, doctors, health care workers, and patients. The US effectively
stopped government aid programs benefiting Palestinians in February,
and humanitarian aid groups and hospital administrators in Gaza and
Jerusalem say aid cuts are doing serious harm to vulnerable patients
at a time when health care systems used by Palestinians are already
heavily strained.

FOREIGN POLICY
A Central American Marshall Plan Won't Work

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Ryan C. Berg, American Enterprise Institute

Addressing the root causes of migration-insecurity, violence,
and lack of opportunity-makes sense. Both the United States and
Mexico should want to ensure that emigration is an option for Central
Americans rather than a necessary step to a life of dignity. However,
López Obrador's strategy rests on a common misunderstanding of
the realities of the original Marshall Plan. Namely, it was not an
infusion of cash that caused a European resurgence but a targeted
investment that channeled and amplified an economic recovery that was
already underway.

USGLC GLOBAL IMPACT BLOG

Peace Corps Volunteer Breaking Down Stereotypes in Zambia: "Not
All American Homes Are Filled with Piles and Piles of Money" |

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Joan Steiger

Since President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March
1, 1961, more than 235,000 Americans have served as volunteers in over
140 countries around the world. This week, we commemorate the 58th
anniversary of the Peace Corps by shining a spotlight on Lizzie
Heilmann, a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia who is improving the
health and well-being of people in her community while creating
lasting impressions for years to come.

Politics & Foreign Policy

BLOOMBERG
Trump Seeks Huge Premium from Allies Hosting U.S. Troops |

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Nick Wadhams and Jennifer Jacobs

For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries
hosting American troops aren't paying enough. Now he wants to
get even, and then some. Under White House direction, the
administration is drawing up demands that Germany, Japan and
eventually any other country hosting U.S. troops pay the full price of
American soldiers deployed on their soil -- plus 50 percent or more
for the privilege of hosting them, according to a dozen administration
officials and people briefed on the matter.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Allies Worry Over U.S. Public Opinion |

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Walter Russell Mead

While Americans argued-sometimes bitterly-over the
country's overseas priorities, there was a broad consensus in
both parties that sustained engagement was necessary to protect U.S.
interests. That consensus is more fragile today. Questions about the
reliability of American commitments keep the lights burning late in
foreign and defense ministries around the world.

CHATHAM HOUSE
US Foreign Policy Will Continue to Divide Americans Beyond 2020 |

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Bruce Stokes

Any assumption that America's commitment to global engagement
will revert to the status quo ante in 2021 if President Donald Trump
is not re-elected belies the growing polarization in US public opinion
about America's role in the world. This partisan divide in
Americans' sentiment pre-dated Trump's election and is
likely to continue whatever the outcome of the next US presidential
election.

BROOKINGS
Is the US Keeping Pace in Africa? |

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Witney Schneidman

What do India, Turkey, Japan, China, and the European Union have in
common with Africa that the United States does not? Each country and
the EU have held two or more summits with African heads of state.
While there were positive aspects in the Trump administration's
Africa strategy that was released late last year, there was no mention
of a U.S.-Africa summit. Does this matter?

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Trump Faces Slog of Diplomacy After Reaching Impasse with North Korea
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Gerald F. Seib

Diplomacy is a little like riding a bicycle: You either keep moving
forward or the thing falls down. That's the position in which
the Trump administration finds itself after last week's Hanoi
summit meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un. The meeting wasn't the disaster some proclaim. A bad
nuclear deal wasn't agreed to; the door to a better one remains
open.

THE WASHINGTON POST

John Bolton Puts His Singular Stamp on Trump's National Security
Council |

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Karen DeYoung, Greg Jaffe, John Hudson, and Josh Dawsey

As national security adviser to President Trump, John Bolton has been
the chief translator of Trump's un¬or¬tho¬dox foreign policy
views to the vast U.S. bureaucracy... An assessment of Bolton's
time in office, as he approaches his first anniversary in the job,
reveals both the breadth of his influence and, in a few notable
instances - such as policy toward North Korea - its
limits.

AP NEWS
Italy Sends Mixed Signals on China Port Investment Deal |
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AP Staff

Italy's coalition government appears undecided over whether it
will sign an agreement with China endorsing its "Belt and
Road" infrastructure investment drive, amid pressure from the
U.S. to stand down. Guglielmo Picchi, undersecretary of state, said
further reflection was needed before signing the proposed agreement.
"As of today, I don't think we should proceed with the
signing," he tweeted Wednesday.


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