TOPSHOT - Tributes are placed beneath the covered seal of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at their headquarters in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump called for USAID to be ...

For decades, these countries have subsided on a lean diet of foreign aid from major donor governments and the United Nations, the World Bank, and other multilateral institutions. Yet under President ...

This paper was written in November 2024 prior to the inauguration of President Trump, and as such does not reflect or account for the changes that have occurred in the development space since then due ...

Over the past year, sharp aid cuts have forced the closure of soup kitchens in war-riven Sudan, led to medicine shortages across sub-Saharan Africa, and resulted in reductions in food rations in ...

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In June 2024, Lee Jae-myung, then the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, declared that under then-President Yoon Suk-yeol “$10 billion in aid to Africa eventually disappears into thin air.” More ...

The capital of Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, runs on aid. A city built in the 1970s by the World Bank, Lilongwe’s straight streets are filled with charities, development agencies and ...

With the Trump administration slashing US Agency for International Development budgets and European nations shifting overseas development aid budgets to bolster defence spending, the world has entered ...

Western aid budgets are falling toward multi-decade lows. Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum offers frontier governments a longer-horizon partner to fill the gap.

While development aid is an often-overlooked aspect in bilateral relations and geopolitics, international development cooperation is a prominent foreign policy tool for China, as was foreign aid for ...