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Global Development

Promoting equitable growth in the developing world.

Persistent poverty, poor education and health care, and crumbling infrastructures take a terrible toll on the residents of developing countries. Yet efforts to assist often fall short of goals, blocked by the counterproductive and inequitable policies of both developing and donor nations. The Global Development Program, which was created in 2005, has made strategic grants to eliminate barriers to equitable growth that originate in poor countries as well as in the policies of rich countries.

The Program’s three overarching goals are to assure that public and private development funds are used more effectively and transparently; to help the world’s poorest farmers gain a larger market share; and to extend quality education to children in developing countries. These demand long-term commitment to reform both within and outside developing countries.

2006 saw important developments on all these fronts. Our grantees in Mexico played a crucial role in making information about government expenditures publicly available—helping to implement “sunshine” laws and increasing poor citizens’ ability to get information about public services such as anti-poverty programs and health care. The new laws and access, in turn, led to an increase in requests for information that drive further reform

To help struggling farmers in developing countries, the Program backed reforms to eliminate trade barriers and agricultural subsidies in industrialized countries and to improve domestic conditions within developing countries that support poor farmers' access to markets. And in December 2006, we launched a large-scale, multiyear partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve learning outcomes in primary and secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

In 2006, the Global Development Program made grants totaling $36,307,021.