Policy is part of reforms to ensure aid supply chains are cost effective and support ...
Most international development experts correctly do not subscribe to the idea that aid has zero benefits. There are lots of examples of how aid has helped improve human welfare at scale around the ...
Of all the countries in the world that will be affected by cuts to overseas aid announced this year, the impacts felt in Somalia will be among the most profound. The war-torn country has long been ...
This week, in 'Politics of aid', Rabin Subedi says: "More than 60 per cent of Nepal's development budget comes from foreign aid, but a Finance Ministry official admitted recently that there had been ...
For decades, billions of dollars in development aid have flowed into Africa — to fight poverty, reduce hunger, and create opportunity. Is foreign aid helping Africa… or quietly keeping it dependent?
In the coastal regions of Bangladesh, access to safe drinking water remains one of the country’s most urgent and complex ...
Africa has to make a critical shift towards self-sufficiency in addressing its HIV challenges, emphasising the need for ...
Black Star Journal comments on a BBC article on Ethiopia's dependency on foreign food aid..…”It notes that while aid may be well-intentioned, its effects can sometimes be devastating (and I'm careful ...
The Trump administration’s drastic reductions to USAID funding, including a recent halt to some lifesaving humanitarian programs, have sent shockwaves from D.C. to remote communities around the world ...