[Guest post by George Ingram: Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development. Also posted here.] As the long-dreaded sequestration process begins to set in, U.S. government programs that have already been feeling the heat of budget pressures are now starting to feel the pinch. Across all agencies and departments, there has never been such heightened vigilance to determine the […]

Guest post by Rodney Bent (see bio at end), originally posted on Sunlight Foundation blog. Over the past 18 years, the American public told pollsters they believe the U.S. government spends way too much on foreign aid, reckoning that something like a fifth or a quarter of the federal budget is used for that purpose. […]

Guest blog by Ben Leo, ONE’s global policy director, and Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s policy associate on the Transparency and Accountability Team. Original posted here. On President Obama’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that called for open, transparent government. The order is based on the principles that openness should be the default […]

Guest post by Paul O’Brien,Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America and member of Publish What You Fund U.S. Advisory Committee. Originally posted here. Will Raj Shah commit USAID to joining the top 10% most transparent donors by the time he leaves his USAID Administrator post? He might do so, but looking at his […]