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America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida

Volunteers at a camp for internally displaced people in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, carry wheat flour donated by USAID in December 2021. J. Countess/Getty Images

March 5, 2025

USAID’s history shows decades of good work on behalf of America’s global interests, although not all its projects succeeded

Christian Ruth, University of Florida

USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power benefits for the US.

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