Peter Cross

Peter Cross

Peter Cross is president of IDEAS, a U.S.-based social enterprise which seeks to strengthen the provision of health services to underserved populations around the world. A health economist with over 40 years of experience developing health and education in the world’s poorest nations, his most recent work was in Afghanistan and also spent six years in Nepal. Cross is a member of USAID's Supply Chain Sustainability Technical Advisory Group.

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Country ownership, power and development

Country ownership, power and development

almost 12 years ago // Contributor: Peter Cross

Should there be limits to country ownership as a development strategy? In a guest opinion for Devex, Peter Cross from U.S.-based IDEAS discusses the case of Nepal, where a proposed shift in foreign aid policy could turn country ownership into government ownership.