Toward a New Paradigm of Sustainable Development

The Partnership for Growth (PfG) is one of the first experiments to operationalize the Obama administration’s strategy to bring greater programmatic coherence to U.S. trade and development initiatives in four countries—The Philippines El Salvador Ghana and Tanzania. A key goal was to reinforce a country-led approach but to also bring to the development table the considerably deeper pockets of non-aid actors as well as what they are best at bringing—the jobs training new businesses domestic supply chain and market linkages that are the fundamental ingredients of any sustainable development strategy.