U.S. Efforts To Educate and Train the Poor in Developing Countries

Since 1960, the United States, through the Agency for International Development (AID) has programmed over $3 billion to improve education and human resources in developing countries. Over the past decade Congress has been concerned about the extent to which U.S. assistance reaches the poor in developing countries. Despite a strategy developed in 1973 requiring that U.S. assistance meet the basic human needs of the poor, including education, AID has not yet completed an agencywide policy for education and human resources program guidance.