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    Money Matters: How the United States spends its humanitarian aid

    In this week's edition: an analysis of U.S. humanitarian aid spending from 2012 to 2021, debates continue over the "local" in localization, and is Prosper Africa ready to prosper?

    By Omar Mohammed // 06 March 2023

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    The United States is the world’s biggest bilateral donor.

    Its spending on aid accounts for over a quarter of the total official development assistance, or ODA, from the Development Assistance Committee member countries.

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      Omar Mohammed is a Foreign Aid Business Reporter based in New York. Prior to joining Devex, he was a Knight-Bagehot fellow in business and economics reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has nearly a decade of experience as a journalist and he previously covered companies and the economies of East Africa for Reuters, Bloomberg, and Quartz.

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