How to Fix Foreign Aid

By violet @ 2025-07-31T14:59 (+25)

This is a linkpost to https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix-foreign-aid

This week my colleague at the Institute for Progress (IFP), Santi Ruiz, spoke with former USAID Chief Economist Dean Karlan about the process of moving $1.7 billion toward evidence-based foreign aid within the agency. Statecraft interviews political appointees and civil servants about how policy actually gets made, and this episode may be relevant for people interested in leveraging public institutions to fund impactful projects. This is a crosspost from the substack and podcast Statecraft.