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Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee and his wife argued that the world doesn’t need the US to be the sole source of aid funding.
The UN humanitarian agency said it is cutting its 2,600 staff operating in more than 60 countries by 20% because of brutal ...
I just yelled at my aging, cancer-surviving mother,” she said. “I am so mad. I don’t understand how she voted for Trump.
The rationale was to address "mismanagement, fraud, and misaligned priorities." Former USAID official Jeremy Konyndyk said ...
There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 years ago that we experienced the largest epidemic of Ebola.
In his 1961 inauguration, President Kennedy pledged that America would do more for the world.
The Trump administration’s deep cuts to federal health agencies and research grants have put at risk lab animals from mice to ...
For the latest episode of our podcast series, Adva Saldinger sits down with Elissa Miolene and David Ainsworth to discuss the top global development stories from the past week.
Foreign assistance offers collective benefit — to security interests, humanitarian values, and public health. But it is also ...