U.S. Pledges of Aid to Africa: Let's Do the Numbers

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• Globalization and Inequality
• MCA Monitor: Tracking the Millennium Challenge Account

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• Aid Effectiveness
• Debt Relief
• Inequality
• Poverty
• Regions

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• Steve Radelet

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Steve Radelet and Bilal Siddiqi

07/19/2005

Before the G-8 Summit, President Bush said that U.S. aid to Africa had tripled since he took office and would double again by 2010. CGD’s Steve Radelet and Bilal Siddiqi find that total U.S. aid to the region has doubled, but not tripled, since 2000, continuing an upward trend that began in 1996. Going forward, the pledge to double aid implies an additional $4.3 billion in aid to Africa by 2010, accounted for by projected increases in the Millennium Challenge Account ($2.0-$2.5 billion), the global AIDS program (PEPFAR) ($1.5 billion), and the recently announced malaria program ($0.5 billion). The pledge to double aid should be seen as a recommitment to previous (important) pledges, rather than an announcement of something new.