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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite dramatic growth between 1990 and 2010, development assistance for health from high-income countries and development agencies to low- and middle-income countries has stagnated, and proposed ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The psychology of success and wealth and the power of capitalism. In 1990, the UN made a commitment to reduce global poverty by 50 ...

In many ways, the last twenty years have been somewhat of a “revolution” in global health, as marked by rising attention, growing funding, and the creation of new, large scale initiatives to address ...