Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. What we need is a reasoned approach to planning for obsolescence of ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces a major defense spending increase, funded by deep cuts to foreign aid—raising concerns about the future of global development and humanitarian efforts. Foreign ...

Explore how the United States uses foreign aid to advance its interests and promote stability and development around the world. According to opinion polls, many Americans believe about one quarter of ...

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 ...

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.

This paper was written in November 2024 prior to the inauguration of President Trump, and as such does not reflect or account for the changes that have occurred in the development space since then due ...

Over the past eight decades, the United States’ international emergency food aid program has been a core component of the country’s humanitarian initiatives and national security and foreign policy ...

Aerial view of the Kariba Dam in the Zambezi River Basin. Shutterstock/Dmitriy Kandinsky Below is Chapter 1 of the 2026 Foresight Africa report, which brings together leading scholars and ...

The Trump administration has ordered a three-month pause on almost all foreign development assistance pending a review to see what fits in with the president's “America First” policy. Aid groups and ...

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order suspending any new U.S. foreign development assistance for three months, and directed a review of foreign assistance programs to ensure they line up ...