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The US House of Representatives introduced a resolution on February 8 calling on the United States to suspend its contributions to UNDP.

Did it pass?

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Interesting. I had lunch with a UNDP staff member a few days ago who had recently worked in North Korea. She told this exact story, that all payments for local staff went to the government and then the government paid the staff less.

In other countries like Afghanistan, UNDP national staff are about the best local talent and are paid directly at some of the best wage rates in the country. Currently no taxes are assessed.

One organization that pays better rates that UNDP is USAID, our own development organization. However, it makes since to pay the Afghans more as even the highest paid Afghans get about 1/10 of the highest international staff.