Fragmenting world worsens finance squeeze, reversing decades of progress on development, UN report warns. UNITED NATIONS, 9 April 2026 – Development financing trends are going i ...

This week, officials from around the world are meeting in Seville for a landmark event in the development policy calendar: the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. The previous ...

By Colleen Goko JOHANNESBURG, April 8 (Retuers) - Wealthy nations slashed their development aid in 2025, probably by ...

As leaders from around the world gathered in Seville, Spain, at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) to discuss how to finance sustainable economic development, a ...

The US slashing its outlay by more than half set the tone, making Germany the largest overall donor.International development aid fell by 23% in real terms in 2025 to the lowest levels since 2015, the ...

Development assistance has long been an effective and powerful foreign policy tool, with major powers like the U.S. and China using development engagement to not only achieve their own security and ...

By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, April 9 (Reuters) - Overseas development aid from the world's richest nations to poorer countries dropped by 23.1% in 2025 to $174.3 billion, the biggest ever year-on-year ...

The UK is roughly halving the climate aid it allocates to developing countries, when accounting changes and inflation are ...

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 ...

Wale Edun, minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, says emerging and developing economies are now paying more in debt service than they receive in external support.

WASHINGTON – Net financing flows to developing countries remain precariously low, propped up by international aid and concessional loans according to new analysis from The ONE Campaign. Many countries ...