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

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 ITUC is raising the alarm after 2025 saw the largest ever annual fall in official development assistance (ODA), putting at risk progress to eradicate poverty and support democracy at a time of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every decade or so, the global aid industry finds that it must transform to survive. During these periods of change, donor countries restructure their aid agencies, shrink or expand their assistance ...

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.