Inside USAID: An Odyssey of Foreign Assistance

USAID is well known, and now sorely missed, for its humanitarian, public health and disaster response work -- but it did far more, including creating entire industries employing thousands of otherwise would-be migrants to the US, training former Soviet bureaucrats, lawyers and entrepreneurs in Western accounting and commercial law systems, teaching court administrators, judges and attorneys in Latin America to conduct modern jury trials, electrifying villages in remote parts of Guatemala, i...