If you do, then perhaps you should counsel whomever approved this article to tell their own daughters not to reach for their goals of becoming doctors, lawyers, scientists, astronauts, and all the other amazing professions that make society what it is today.

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Donors have often used aid labeled for development to advance their own foreign policy goals or to promote their own exports rather than to achieve the biggest impact on poverty or growth in a recipient country.

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