The U.S. Agency for International Development is at the center of a political firestorm after the Trump administration indicated it will shut it down as an independent agency and possibly move it ...

On Aug. 15, 1947, British colonial rule in South Asia officially ended. The four independent states that eventually emerged in its place — India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh — all faced urgent ...

Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to other countries. Over the last two weeks, President Donald ...

President Donald Trump picked Ben Black—the son of billionaire Leon Black—to lead the little-known U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, making the pick after Black wrote a Substack post ...

LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Global leaders will kick off the once-a-decade Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in Seville, Spain, on Monday, which aims to improve the world's aid and ...

How can researchers measure poverty and understand local development needs in places where conventional data collection is ...

For decades, USAID has played a crucial role in global development, managing over $40 billion annually for programs that combat HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, provide disaster relief, improve access ...

A January U.S. Agency for International Development report said that in 2024, 12.1% of the agency’s money went directly to local organizations in foreign countries. That doesn’t mean the remaining 88% ...

The Trump administration informed Congress on Friday that it plans to eliminate nearly all the remaining positions at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The move will ...

Administration officials have led a widespread effort to dismantle the agency. The State Department said Friday it was officially shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development, in what ...