The U.S. is urging other nations to back a “trade over aid” initiative at the United Nations as part of the Trump ...

The tariff-friendly administration could benefit from listening to its own advice.

Four takeaways, three charts, and one existential question raised by new data on official development assistance.

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 ...

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 ...

Wealthy nations slashed their development aid in 2025, probably by record-breaking amounts, a debt group said, ahead of data ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.