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 ...

As China soared to economic prominence in recent decades, it also emerged as a leading source of finance for low- and middle-income countries, according to statistical records, issuing over $1 ...

The dismantling of USAID is the culmination of a decade-long realignment of Western approaches to development, inspired by China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The GSEZ Mineral Port in Gabon, one of the ...

While development aid is an often-overlooked aspect in bilateral relations and geopolitics, international development cooperation is a prominent foreign policy tool for China, as was foreign aid for ...

A flagship project set up in Africa to protect Britain from future pandemics will be closed down this month because of UK ...

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 ...

Prioritising the allocation of official development assistance and concessional foreign loans to key projects with strong ...

Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, ...

President William Ruto’s renewed focus on large-scaleinfrastructure and development projects in Western Kenya is increasingly beingviewed as a calculated political strategy that could boost his ...

(CNN) — It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the ...