USAID is the independent federal government agency that provides foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States.

Cato Policy Analysis No. 338 March 22, 1999 U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc by Janine R. Wedel Janine R. Wedel, author of Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989--1998 (St. Martin s, 1998), is a research professor of anthropology and a research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and ...