It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.
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We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.
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| Birth: | 22nd September, 1949 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Administrator, Politician, Professor, Public Servant |
About
Andrew S. Natsios is an American public servant who has served in a number of Massachusetts and high level federal government positions. Most notably, he has served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, and Vice President of World Vision. Currently, Natsios teaches as Executive Professor at the The Bush School of Government and Public Service. Natsios received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Georgetown University and his Master in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Natsios served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987, focusing on public finance and municipal government. Andrew Natsios was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Alpha Omega Council of New England in 2012 as well as by the Society for International Development in 2011. He also received honorary doctorates from Marquette University in 2008 and from Georgetown University in 2002. Andrew Natsios has authored numerous articles on foreign policy and humanitarian emergencies, as well as three books: Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know, The Great North Korean Famine, and U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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