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US Foreign Minister: Development Aid through the USA ended
Trump’s plan has long been certain-now it has been carried out: Help for abroad by the US development authority is history. That could have dramatic consequences.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the official end of foreign aid from the US Development Authority USA. “Development goals were rarely achieved, instability has often worsened and an anti-American mood has only grown,” he criticized the effectiveness of the authority in a blog. “This era from the government of supported inefficiency has officially ended.”
Aid programs for abroad that agreed with the policy of the US government and promoted American interests would now be managed by the Foreign Ministry.
The Trump government had already started to smash the US development authority in early February. The reason: their benefits are too low, the costs are too high. In March, Rubio then explained that more than 80 percent of the projects once led by USA should be canceled. Of the around 6,200 projects originally, according to his information, only around 1,000 are to be continued under the supervision of the Foreign Ministry. There were also legal concerns about the procedure.
The importance of the USA
The development authority was one of the largest organizations of its kind worldwide and organized numerous auxiliary measures around the world-from AIDS aid to reconstruction in war regions.
A current study comes to the conclusion that the clearing at USAID could result in more than 14 million additional deaths over the next five years. Of these, around five million children under five of them could be, as can be seen from a study published in the specialist magazine “The Lancet”, for example from Barcelona and the Brazilian Salvador da Bahia. In the study, the researchers examined mortality from more than 130 countries and regions in the period 2001 to 2021 and finally made a forecast for the years 2025 to 2030.
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Source: Stern
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