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Hillary Clinton: “I believe that our aid program should be targeted, based on explicit and quantitative goals, and with an explicit goal…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2009
I believe that our aid program should be targeted, based on explicit and quantitative goals, and with an explicit goal of enabling countries to break the poverty trap and thereby end their dependence on aid.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Clinton emphasizes the need for targeted foreign aid to help countries become self-sufficient.

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