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 2023, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview, aid organizations faced a $37 billion funding shortfall to help crisis-affected communities. Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International ...

U.S. President Donald Trump paused U.S. foreign development assistance for 90 days and ordered reviews of aid programs to ensure they align with Washington's foreign policy, according to an executive ...

The GSEZ Mineral Port in Gabon, one of the projects supported by public-private partnership via the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. Credit: U.S. International Development Finance ...

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 ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces a major defense spending increase, funded by deep cuts to foreign aid—raising concerns about the future of global development and humanitarian efforts. Foreign ...

The Trump administration has ordered a three-month pause on almost all foreign development assistance pending a review to see what fits in with the president's “America First” policy. Aid groups and ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than one year since massive foreign aid cuts and the eventual closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Oxfam outlines what USAID did and the ripple effects of losing it. U.S.