On February 3, 2025, exactly 20 years after former South African President Nelson Mandela stood in front of a cheering crowd in London’s Trafalgar Square to launch a historic global campaign to “make ...

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Donald Trump’s new administration has plunged international development assistance into an existential crisis. Within hours of taking office in January, the ...

The Trump administration has restructured America’s approach to foreign aid—ensuring that developing nations can help ...

As Western countries pull back on foreign aid, governments hope partnerships with charities and investors will help fill the ...

This is the fourth article in an SSIR series authored by T. Alexander Puutio and other global development experts and leaders on how the sector can chart a path forward in the face of government ...

A worker arranges boxes of humanitarian aid from the now-defunct USAID at a at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana, Kenya, June 3, 2025 (AP photo by Andrew Kasuku). Around the world, wealthy donor states ...

The dismantling of USAID is the culmination of a decade-long realignment of Western approaches to development, inspired by China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The GSEZ Mineral Port in Gabon, one of the ...

When governments seek to help less-developed countries, they often do so by awarding aid grants to meet some local need—hygiene, sanitation, infrastructure, or other demands that the country’s own ...

On March 14, 2002, in a speech at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), President George W. Bush called for the creation of “a new compact for global development,” with greater contributions from ...