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The Weekly GAB - Friday, April 15, 2016
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Campaign 2016

THE HILL
GOP Chairman: White House Race Threatens US Global Leadership |

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Julian Hattem

"The world is in need of U.S. leadership and clarity probably
more so than at any time in modern history. And right now, not seeing
that," Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) [and Chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee] said during remarks at a conference of
the Committee for Economic Development, a think tank. "By the
way, that statement about world leadership - I'm really
referring not to the current administration so much. This is almost
over," he added. "I'm referring to what's
happening in the presidential race. Really, people not getting any
strong signals about where this nation will be when this ends."

THE WASHINGTON POST
Paul Ryan Disagrees with Trump and Cruz on Foreign Policy |

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Karoun Demirjian

Like most Republicans, Ryan said he wants a strong military with a
robust budget and for the United States to be actively engaged in the
world because the country can't "just pull back and think
that our oceans are going to save us." But he said he wants to
build up the military so "that it is less likely to be
used" and though he believes in promoting American values
overseas, he warned that "we have to be realistic of our
expectations in the promotion of those values." The speaker also
said he believes in "important soft power projection like trade
agreements, like democracy building"... Ryan's opinions on
foreign policy are an important marker, not only because he primarily
focused on domestic policy before becoming speaker, but also because
he has come to represent a mainstream policy alternative for
Republicans in the 2016 election cycle, as the GOP scrambles to find
its ideological standard-bearer while anti-establishment politicians
dominate the presidential primaries.

THE RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH

To Create a Safer World, Presidential Candidates Should Heed Call of
Veterans

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Brig. Gen. Skip Vincent, USAF (Ret.), and Rear Adm. Gerard Mauer, USN
(Ret.)

As veterans of the Air Force and Navy, we both served during the
Balkan conflict, a decade-long struggle that mirrors much of what we
are seeing in the Middle East today. From peacekeeping missions in
Kosovo to combat roles in the Balkans, America took a leadership role
in the global response to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. As more
Syrians flee and we face increasing crises from the Middle East to
North Korea, it's critical that we ask how our next president
and nation will keep pace with these growing challenges... U.S.
diplomacy efforts create goodwill and strong relationships with other
countries. These actions bolster our nation's security, as well
as create economic opportunity for American companies. Our next
president will want and need these tools on the first day in the Oval
Office.

Who's in the News

THE NEW YORK TIMES
It's Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis

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Bono, lead singer of U2 and a founder of advocacy group ONE and AIDS
organization (RED)

The United States and other developed nations have a chance to act
smarter, think bigger and move faster in addressing this crisis and
preventing the next one... The international community could be doing
much more, through development assistance and trade deals, to
encourage businesses and states hosting refugees to see the upside of
people's hands being occupied... they need development.
Development that invests in them and empowers them - that treats
them not as passive recipients but as leaders and partners. The world
tends to give humanitarian efforts and development efforts their own
separate bureaucracies and unlisted phone numbers, as if they're
wholly separate concerns. But to be effective they need to be better
coordinated; we have to link the two and fund them both.

CQ
Graham Uses Appearance by Bono to Make Case for Middle East Aid |
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Rachel Oswald

Graham, who heads the Senate Appropriations subcommittee for foreign
assistance, has called for an emergency relief package worth
"multiple billions" to be developed for several countries
in the Middle East. The countries included would be Jordan and
Lebanon, which have seen their resources stretched to the limit from
hosting huge numbers of Syrian refugees, and Egypt, which has
experienced a spate of Islamic State-linked terrorist attacks. At the
hearing, the South Carolina Republican said the sought-after money had
to come from an emergency appropriation because he was not willing to
reduce funding to other parts of the State-Foreign Operations account.
"I don't want to take money away from PEPFAR,"
Graham said, referring to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS
Relief. "I don't want to take money away from malaria. I
don't want to take money away from the Peace Corps. I'm
not going to take money away from embassy security."

THE HILL
The Need for Better Economic Data in Africa

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Rep. Grace Meng, (D-NY), member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

Publishing low-quality data, which may be useful in certain instances,
can quickly undermine corporate reputations, and growing data
collection efforts beyond narrow business sectors can quickly become
cost-prohibitive... By contributing to the effort of collecting,
disseminating and analyzing investment-grade data, I believe we can
enhance the prospects of workers in emerging markets, increase
business opportunities for American businesses abroad and engage in
foreign aid efforts in those areas that truly need it most. Toward
that end, I intend to focus on this issue further from my seat on the
House Foreign Affairs Committee, and I will be seeking appropriations
report language over the next few months that seeks greater inter, and
intra, agency coordination of such efforts.

Development & Diplomacy

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
The Mounting Call for a Humanitarian Revolution |

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Howard LaFranchi

The remarkable strides over the past two decades in reducing global
poverty and hunger and expanding education and prosperity are in
jeopardy as a result of a set of humanitarian crises. These surpass in
size and complexity those the world confronted at the end of World War
II... "We can no longer do the usual of responding to a
crisis that is already before us by calling a big conference to
collect pledges of funding and then having the international community
swoop in to save the day," says Shannon Scribner, who heads the
humanitarian policy team at Oxfam America in Washington.
"It's really an '80s approach that is no longer
working today."

THE WASHINGTON POST

China and the UAE give plenty of foreign aid but the details can be
hard to nail down |

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Adam Taylor

A new report on the transparency of prominent international aid donors
has found that many of these donors are now making serious efforts to
make their foreign assistance programs public and the data from it
accessible. However, the 2016 Aid Transparency Index also found that
some donors are offering little, if any, public information about
their foreign aid. In fact, two important donors China and the United
Arab Emirates are currently offering little publicly accessible
information about their aid at all.

U.S. News & World Report
USAID Challenges Innovators to Combat Zika |

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Lydia Randall

The "Combatting Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge," launched
Wednesday with plans to invest as much as $30 million in development
of successful ideas. "This is a globalized, interconnected world and a
threat to any country is a threat to all," said Wendy Taylor, director
of USAID's Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact... The
combatting Zika challenge at USAID is similar to a "Fighting Ebola"
challenge; a program which saw 14 innovations funded out of 1,500
submissions... "[Zika] Ideas could range from the very
simple... all the way to complex, such as thinking about
genetically engineered mosquitoes," Taylor said. USAID is looking for
ways to reduce mosquito populations, prevent transmission of the
virus, and mobilize and educate entire communities.

Politics & Foreign Policy

REUTERS

Health Financing Crisis Threatens Developing Countries, Experts Say |
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Magdalena Mis

Millions of people in developing countries are at risk of going
without even the most basic health services as a result of low
domestic health spending and slow growth in international aid for
health, experts said on Wednesday. Nearly half of 80 developing
nations are unlikely to meet by 2040 the international target for
healthcare to be deemed universally available - spending of $86 per
person per year - two studies published in The Lancet medical journal
said. "...The research, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, analysed health spending for 184 countries from 2013 to
2040 based on World Health Organization (WHO) and IHME data and trends
in development assistance between 1900 and 2015.

THE HILL
Public Health Groups Call for Congress to Reject TPP |

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Vicki Needham

More than 50 public health groups on Tuesday called on Congress to
reject a trade agreement between the United States and 11 other
Pacific Rim nations because it will block access to affordable
medicines. Led by Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam America, the
groups wrote a letter to Congress arguing that the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) agreement contains provisions that would undermine
public health and in many cases make it more difficult to deliver
lifesaving medicines to patients.


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