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| 1960s || "International Aid in the 1960s: An Agency USAID is BornIn 1961, President Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act into law and created USAID by executive order. Once USAID got it gets to work, international development assistance opportunities grew grow tremendously. The time during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations became become known as the “decade of development.”"<ref name="USAID HISTORY">{{cite web |title=USAID HISTORY |url=https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/usaid-history |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=29 March 2019}}</ref>
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| 1970s || "International Aid in the 1970s: A Shift to Basic Human NeedsIn the 1970s, the USAID began begins to shift its focus away from technical and capital assistance programs. Instead, U.S. development assistance stressed a “basic focusing on "basic human needs” approach, which focused on: Food needs" such as food and nutritionPopulation , population planningHealthEducationHuman , health, education, and human resources development".<ref name="USAID HISTORY"/>
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| 1980s || "International Aid in the 1980s: A Turn to Free MarketsIn the 1980s, foreign Foreign assistance sought seeks to stabilize currencies and financial systems. It also promoted market-based principles to restructure developing countries' policies and institutions. During this decadeIn the 1980s, USAID reaffirmed reaffirms its commitment to broad-based economic growth, emphasizing employment and income opportunities through a revitalization of agriculture and expansion of domestic markets. In this decade, development Development activities were become increasingly channeled through private voluntary organizations (PVOs), and aid shifted shifts from individual projects to large programs."<ref name="USAID HISTORY"/>In the mid-1980s, USAID fully commits itself to a significant effort to improve global childhood immunization coverage.<ref name="Three decades of USAID investments in immunization through the child survival revolution"/>
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| 1990s || USAID’s top priority becomes sustainable development, or helping countries improve their own quality of life. During this decade, USAID tailors development assistance programs to the countries' economic conditions.<ref name="USAID HISTORY"/> During the 1990s, USAID engages in a process of structural reform. Programming and funding authority are being shifted dramatically within the Agency to further decentralize responsibilities. The centralized strategic decision making that characterized the Agency in the first part of the decade is being shifted to missions and the role of Global projects changes dramatically.<ref name="Three decades of USAID investments in immunization through the child survival revolution"/>
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| 1961 || || United States President {{w|John F. Kennedy}} signs the Foreign Assistance Act into law and creates USAID by executive order.ref name="USAID HISTORY"/> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1966 || Program || USAID joins the global effort to eradicate {{w|smallpox}}.<ref name="USAID Celebrates 50 years of Saving Lives Across the Globe"/> ||
