From the Philippine News Agency (Nov 2): Top USAID official to visit PHL to
launch development projects
The U.S. Embassy in Manila said Eric Postel, assistant administrator for
USAID’s Bureau of Economic Growth, Education and Environment, will be in Manila
from Nov. 5 to 8.
He will meet with high-level Philippine government officials, business
chambers, and other stakeholders to discuss the U.S.-Philippines Partnership for
Growth (PFG) initiative launched in November 2011 by U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del
Rosario.
PFG provides a new framework for deepening and strengthening bilateral
engagement to promote broad-based and inclusive economic growth. The program is
intended to mobilize the resources of both countries to speed up economic growth
in the Philippines....Postel will be accompanied by Paula Reed Lynch, managing director of the Policy
Analysis Office for the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources at the U.S.
Department of State.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&sid=&nid=&rid=467897
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