The comparison between China and the World Bank is highly relevant. The World Bank is often associated with social sectors, ...

A new study analyzing 842 tourism-related aid projects worth $13.13 billion found only 89 explicitly address climate change. Researchers say tourism’s potential to drive climate-resilient development ...

TOPSHOT - Tributes are placed beneath the covered seal of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at their headquarters in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump called for USAID to be ...

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 year, sharp aid cuts have forced the closure of soup kitchens in war-riven Sudan, led to medicine shortages across sub-Saharan Africa, and resulted in reductions in food rations in ...

In areas that had received the most American aid, the probability of conflict increased by 3.1 percentage points.

The capital of Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, runs on aid. A city built in the 1970s by the World Bank, Lilongwe’s straight streets are filled with charities, development agencies and ...

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In June 2024, Lee Jae-myung, then the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, declared that under then-President Yoon Suk-yeol “$10 billion in aid to Africa eventually disappears into thin air.” More ...