That’s awful. Local groups are far more cost-effective and attuned to what communities need. They stay long after foreign workers depart. To make foreign aid more efficient and more effective ...

British Conservatives cited cost-cutting to force the UK’s foreign aid office into a merger. Five years later, it hasn’t ...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is no more. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has announced that 83 ...

To [wield soft power], the U.S. has since the 1960s used the distribution of foreign aid through USAID as central to the promotion of a positive image of itself to others. Over the past 60 years ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Soft power is the ability of nations, in this case the U.S., to use its appeal – and ...

Around the world, countries are slashing their aid budgets ... test or help scale up effective social innovations. Kremer estimated the social rate of return of the DIV’s portfolio in its first year ...

I would want him to understand how foreign aid protects us and promotes core American values. With this knowledge, this other Taylor now has a choice to make. Does he return to his warm cup of ...

As I’ve written before, cutting foreign aid may seem like an easy budget fix. Yet it comes with long-term risks: it can fuel instability, shrink trade opportunities, and ultimately make donor ...

Making the world’s most defenceless people ... millions in Sudan or Gaza will face much hardship. Is foreign aid always effective and managed well? No, it could be better. Many of the government ...

2) Unlock Aid’s Foreign Bridge Fund Unlock Aid is a coalition group aimed at making global development more effective. Its new Foreign Aid Bridge Fund is meant to help sustain the organizations ...

Preserve an outdated, opaque system riddled with inefficiency, or forge a leaner, results-driven model that actually serves those in need.