With steep budget cuts looming, a growing number of tiny volunteer-driven organizations are delivering aid on their own. Will the Trump administration inspire even more small-scale global giving?
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As President Trump puts U.S. foreign aid on the chopping block, few Americans know much about it. Perhaps even fewer realize that the U.S. lags behind its peers on this front.
An active outbreak of a type of bird flu in China raises concerns about worldwide pandemics. Ebola and Zika viruses still threaten. Here’s why this is not the time to cut funding.
Expectations are high that China will take the reins of global leadership at Davos, but don’t expect Xi Jinping to upset the apple cart.
There’s a huge divide in thinking between academia and international development on the role of the internet in economic growth.
Trade incentives and more inclusive union leadership could improve working conditions in the garment industry – particularly for women.
Britain uses its aid for soft power. How will that change after it leaves the EU?
Getting assistance to populations in need demands new ways of doing development that are smarter, faster and more efficient.
As Australia joins a New York summit to discuss the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it still faces questions over whether it is meeting water standards at home.
International development banks are supposed to ensure adherence to human rights in the projects they fund. Instead, their practices provide fertile ground for human rights abuses.
As the UN gears up to unveil the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, here are two new rules for development funding to help it go as far as possible.
Much of the world still lacks access to proper sanitation and clean water - an issue that needs urgent action. But without low-carbon technologies, clean water could come at the expense of the climate.
One of the biggest problems in international development is that health statistics are badly kept in many of the countries with the most to gain. Finally something is being done about it.
Tropical parasites have been moving up the world health agenda in recent years. They’re still a long way from the top, though.
A dedicated group of forward-looking experts have crunched the numbers on human progress. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.
As Obama travels to Africa, it’s a reminder of how people and communities need to play a bigger role in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
A UNICEF report says global progress on child survival and reducing poverty has left behind some of the world’s poorest children.
It’s not a surprise that development aid frees up money for countries to spend on defence budgets. Why is the UK so shocked by its own policies?
There is a way for governments to find out the consensus on global issues such as climate change. But it involves painstaking, complex work, and an end to the adversarial clash of competing ideologies.
Bjorn Lomborg’s “consensus” approach involves ranking global development policies by their ratio of benefit to cost. But this hard-headed economic rationale can actually end up entrenching inequality.
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Professor in Global Development, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Centre for Global Health & Associate Professor, University of Toronto
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Professor of Ecological Economics, UCL
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Professor of Global Development, University of Manchester
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Visiting Scholar, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor Conflict Resolution, Trinity College Dublin
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Honorary Associate Professor in Strategic Studies, Deakin University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Researcher Development, Deakin University
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Lecturer in International Relations and Security Studies, Nottingham Trent University
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland