Local staff and their partners face the greatest challenges from reduced U.S. funding. Australia should focus its efforts here. In January 2025, the United States issued an unprecedented freeze on U.S ...

In a word increasingly dominated by conflict and tension, international aid seems to be one of the first casualties. The past few years have seen a growing number of countries slashing or scaling back ...

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 ...

In ten short years, the UK government went from proclaiming its commitment to eradicate global poverty to slashing foreign assistance – and it is not alone in doing so. To restore a principled ...

We’ve entered a new era of austerity. The global pullback on international aid is still unfolding, and the sector is only beginning to process the full implications. International development ...

As the United States and other major donors scale back international aid, the development sector finds itself at a critical crossroads. This trend, driven by shifting political priorities and budget ...

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 ...

COMMENT: As the impact of the UK’s decision to slash international development funding really starts to hit home, NGOs are ...

Edesia, a Rhode Island-based company that makes “Plumpy’Nut” — packets of specially fortified and highly caloric peanut butter paste that saves the lives of severely malnourished babies and children — ...