In areas that had received the most American aid, the probability of conflict increased by 3.1 percentage points.

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, June 26 (Reuters) - Global leaders will kick off the once-a-decade Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in Seville, Spain, on Monday, which aims to improve the world's aid and ...

Spread the loveOfficial Development Assistance (ODA) plays a pivotal role in the economic development and welfare of many developing nations. Since its inception in 1969, ODA has been recognized as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every decade or so, the global aid industry finds that it must transform to survive. During these periods of change, donor countries restructure their aid agencies, shrink or expand their assistance ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. foreign aid is in disarray. Although the Trump administration lacks the legal authority to do this, hundreds of people on the agency’s staff have been put on unpaid leave or fired, according to ...