New research looking into the US government-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shows when aid is handed over to corporations, civilians pay the price.
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Africa does not need another grand vision. It needs to treat the vision it already has as a discipline.
The drop in funding has also led donors to prioritize the trend of using aid to control the movement of people – over their needs.
USAID’s closure, while painful and damaging, might give rise to a new arrangement beyond aid.
The timing of the offer was thorny because it coincided with the US indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro.
A study found that South Koreans who received donated US vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic were more in favor of their government giving to other nations.
Public health campaigns had made significant strides toward eradicating diseases like elephantitis and river blindness. But this progress has since unraveled with the second Trump administration.
International scholarships make up most of the foreign aid to higher education in conflict-affected countries.
Doing more with less may not be sustainable for an exhausted workforce over the long term.
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have, in fact, exacerbated food wastage.
Withdrawing or reducing aid has immediate and often fatal effects − not only for the countries receiving aid but for people around the globe.
Ghanaian development expert Bright Simons talks about the history and future of foreign aid on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Prevention is better than cure. To cut healthcare costs, African countries must re-strategise.
A new modelling study has sought to find out what impact recent foreign aid cuts – particularly from the US – will have on HIV. Here’s what the researchers found.
Three-quarters of Australia’s foreign assistance budget is flowing to the Indo-Pacific, showing a commitment to remaining a reliable partner as USAID cuts bite.
Media organisations in former Soviet states are beginning to feel the bite of US foreign funding cuts.
Humanitarian aid is based on empathy and the recognition that everyone has a right to live with dignity.
In 2020, British Conservatives cited cost-cutting to force the UK’s foreign aid office into a merger. Five years later, it hasn’t recovered its budget or expertise.
The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is an immediate disaster, but the economic model for international solidarity has been outdated for a long time.
Both major parties have an opportunity to clearly state they will preserve and even increase Australia’s overseas aid budget, after cuts by London and Washington.
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