Development assistance has long been an effective and powerful foreign policy tool, with major powers like the U.S. and China using development engagement to not only achieve their own security and ...

A batch of heavy machines donated by the Japan International Cooperation Agency to Ukraine, for removing debris caused by Russian attacks. Credit: Facebook/JICA “Japan’s Contributions to the ...

In many ways, the last twenty years have been somewhat of a “revolution” in global health, as marked by rising attention, growing funding, and the creation of new, large scale initiatives to address ...

Australia holds a distinctive position within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in that it is a developed country in a mostly developing neighborhood. Of its neighbors, ...

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Donald Trump’s new administration has plunged international development assistance into an existential crisis. Within hours of taking office in January, the ...

The world is full of money. Add up real estate, equities and other assets held by households, corporations, governments and financial institutions and the number falls in the trillions. So why has ...

The United States is currently undergoing a review of U.S. foreign assistance funding for effectiveness and alignment with U.S. interests. Let’s not mistake a review for a mandate to walk away. UNICEF ...

Since the end of the Cold War, dramatic changes in the security environment in the Indo-Pacific region have transformed Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) strategy, as evidenced by ...

This week, officials from around the world are meeting in Seville for a landmark event in the development policy calendar: the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. The previous ...

This is the fourth article in an SSIR series authored by T. Alexander Puutio and other global development experts and leaders on how the sector can chart a path forward in the face of government ...

Human development does not happen in a vacuum. A growing economy, an improved educational system, and better health outcomes cannot be removed from broader questions of governance, political stability ...