Development assistance has long been an effective and powerful foreign policy tool, with major powers like the U.S. and China using development engagement to not only achieve their own security and ...

Rustad, Siri Aas; Júlia Palik; Øystein H. Rolandsen & Kathrine Rudolfsen (2026) Can development assistance prevent conflict?.

A batch of heavy machines donated by the Japan International Cooperation Agency to Ukraine, for removing debris caused by Russian attacks. Credit: Facebook/JICA Subscribe for ads-free reading “Japan’s ...

In many ways, the last twenty years have been somewhat of a “revolution” in global health, as marked by rising attention, growing funding, and the creation of new, large scale initiatives to address ...

The world is full of money. Add up real estate, equities and other assets held by households, corporations, governments and financial institutions and the number falls in the trillions. So why has ...

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 ...

This week, officials from around the world are meeting in Seville for a landmark event in the development policy calendar: the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. The previous ...

A ceremony was organized in Paris on Wednesday, January 28, to mark Romania's associate member staus in the OECD Development Assistance Committee.  Established in 1961, the Committee originated from ...

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.

Human development does not happen in a vacuum. A growing economy, an improved educational system, and better health outcomes cannot be removed from broader questions of governance, political stability ...

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 ...