Friday, July 15, 2011
Foreign Aid Should Deliver Science, Too
A pairing of U.S. foreign aid and the National Science Foundation should deliver vital technological and scientific access to the world at no additional cost to U.S. taxpayers.
The United States Agency for International Development once had a robust record on science and technology, including work that helped lead to new crop strands and oral rehydration solutions for use in parts of the world where some of the biggest development challenges are drought and deadly diarrhea.
That record all but disappeared over the last 15 years.
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