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 ...

Foreign aid has recently been at the center of a polarized debate, with claims of inefficiency and a lack of return on investment. For over 100 years, Save the Children has continuously reviewed and ...

UK aid spending lacks clear priorities and often isn’t value for money, watchdog warns - Aid spent on supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK – up to a fifth of the total budget – diverts ...

TOPSHOT - Tributes are placed beneath the covered seal of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at their headquarters in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump called for USAID to be ...

Reductions in official development assistance can lead to a significant increase in death among mothers, children, and infants, according to a new Stanford-led study that reviewed three decades of ...

“We can’t fill the gap,” sighs Seramila Teddy, the governor of Sava, a region in the north-east of Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world. He says that since President Donald Trump ...

When the Trump administration abruptly froze billions of dollars in foreign aid and began dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the headlines focused on geopolitical ...

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 ...

Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, ...

Britain is spending one-fifth of its entire aid budget on housing migrants and asylum seekers, a new report has revealed.