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What Does Foreign Aid Really Do? An Insider’s View of USAID | Clifford H. Brown
What does foreign aid actually look like when you’re the person working on the ground?
Today’s guest is Clifford H. Brown, a former commercial lawyer who spent 27 years working with USAID, serving across Latin America, Africa, and Central Asia.
During his career, Clifford experienced military coups, civil unrest, revolutions, and humanitarian crises firsthand. Those experiences gave him a very different perspective on foreign assistance—not simply as a political talking point, but as something that can affect people’s livelihoods, communities, institutions, and everyday lives.
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