Battles to end poverty, inequality will falter in Trump era, experts predict

[inanna]

Source: Reuters

Tue Nov 29, 2016 | 1:44pm EST

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Global goals to end poverty and aid to the developing world are at risk of severe setback under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, whose campaign rhetoric was ominous and whose plans are vague, experts said on Tuesday.

The makeup of Trump's administration remains uncertain three weeks after his Nov. 8 election, as he has made few appointments to key positions affecting foreign aid, according to experts assembled for an online panel by the Overseas Development Institute, a London-based think tank.

"It does not appear that President-elect Trump has a considered world view of any sort," said Reuben Brigety, dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

"As a result, we really do not know what he's going to do," Brigety said. "I suspect, frankly, that we will see him make this up as he goes along."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-aid-trump-idUSKBN13O2IJ?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I swear Trump is the illegitimate child of Mr. Potter or

the son that Roy Cohn always wished he had.

[Hortensis]

2. Of course.

[ananda]

3. "falter" ??? Is that typical Ango-Saxon understatement?

It's not going to falter.

All our social safety nets are going into free fall!

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. They're talking about global poverty and inequality

The reversals in the USA will be so large they'll have a significant effect on the world as a whole.

[Solly Mack]

4. Duh

[Wellstone ruled]

5. The real truth is spoken.

Another four years of Austerity,scary to say,2018 will be the start of the next major recession.

[marybourg]

7. It takes "experts" to predict that? nt.