The End of the Global Aid Industry

ZAINAB USMAN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Every decade or so, the global aid industry finds that it must ... Read More

The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do

Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid. Read More

What is the new US-backed Gaza aid plan and why doesn't the UN like it?

A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not ... Read More

Trump tore apart global aid - here’s how the world will suffer

Well, according to The Independent’s data correspondent Alicja Hagopian, expect food shortages, medical crises, and global ... news industry. For the first time since the end of the Second World ... Read More

Who funds global aid – and where do the billions of dollars go?

“Beijing has used debt rather than aid to establish a dominant position in the international development finance market ... is the world’s most free-thinking news brand, providing global ... Read More

Global aid funding cuts disrupt child vaccinations almost as much as pandemic: UN

Global aid funding cuts ... backslide in childhood vaccination in a generation. Aid funding cuts, led by the US – formerly the world’s largest donor – risked the same outcome, the joint ... Read More

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo

As the global financial crisis unfolds, those least responsible—our world’s poor—will be most ... than qualified to tackle this subject. In Dead Aid, Moyo comes out with guns blazing against the aid ... Read More