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 ...

Development aid money is used to build schools, connect villages to the electricity grid and expand health care in poorer countries. A detailed and up-to-date overview of development aid projects is ...

When governments seek to help less-developed countries, they often do so by awarding aid grants to meet some local need—hygiene, sanitation, infrastructure, or other demands that the country’s own ...

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 ...

Frank Bremer has dedicated his life to the fight against poverty and has been involved in development aid in 30 countries in Africa, Central Asia, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, preparing ...

A worker arranges boxes of humanitarian aid from the now-defunct USAID at a at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana, Kenya, June 3, 2025 (AP photo by Andrew Kasuku). Around the world, wealthy donor states ...

U.S. President Donald Trump paused U.S. foreign development assistance for 90 days and ordered reviews of aid programs to ensure they align with Washington's foreign policy, according to an executive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The psychology of success and wealth and the power of capitalism. In 1990, the UN made a commitment to reduce global poverty by 50 ...

Africa faces declining aid, rising debt, climate pressure and a weakening global order. Official development assistance, the technical term for foreign aid, fell by 23.1% in 2025, the largest annual ...

A February rally in Upper Senate Park to demand that congress and President Trump act to restore foreign aid. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The world’s biggest aid donors are ...