Obama Studying Spending More … In Kenya

02/03/2014

Obama Studying Spending More … In Kenya

Move fuels USAID's already exponential growth in aid

My latest from WND. - Steve Peacock

Now that an $87 million African trade-promotion project is reaching the end of its five-year run, the Obama administration might spend millions more to decide whether it wisely invested U.S. taxpayer dollars in the venture.

If the Competitiveness and Trade Expansion, or COMPETE Trade Hub project, is deemed to have been effective, a follow-up program could receive more cash from the Treasury.

In this latest facet of a five-year U.S. Agency for International Development experiment in and around Kenya, the federal government will obtain contractor-conducted project evaluation services before committing additional funding.

USAID/East Africa wants to see if it had actually reduced barriers to “regional and international trade,” according to planning documents that WND discovered via routine database.

Continued at WND.com...

Feb 3, 2014 6:26:13 AM | Africa, Kenya, Uganda, USAID, White House, WND

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