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[quote=Anonymous]FWIW, a big part of the reason USAID uses a lot of contractors is that a lot of its work isn't permanent. For example, 2 years ago we didn't need a big humanitarian operation in Gaza. But, we need one now, and the only way to quickly do that is to use contractors, PSCs and indefinite quantity contracts. The people I know in USAID are the kind of people who can quickly deliver humanitarian aid of the right kind in order to support the current ceasefire agreement in Gaza, say. Or, speed food to a famine so that the people enduring the famine don't migrate across borders and cause instability in neighboring countries. If you did these functions through USG federal career employees, it would be hard to fire them when the famine was over or the conflict came to a peace agreement and people went home. [/quote]
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