USAID program blows grant money on training conferences

By Michal Conger
Published July 29, 2013 4:00am ET
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USAID program blows grant money on training conferences
Sixteen months and $47 million into a $200 million community aid effort in Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development hasn’t awarded a single grant. Instead, the agency has spent the money on too many training conferences and may actually be causing more instability, according to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan […]

Sixteen months and $47 million into a $200 million community aid effort in Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development hasn’t awarded a single grant.

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