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 ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. According to recent analysis, that aid, referred to often as official development assistance, has fallen by between 15 and 22 percent ...

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 ...

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 ...

To help explain the recent and ongoing foreign assistance pause, the ONE Campaign has compiled answers to several of the most frequently asked questions. Last updated Feb. 20, 2025. How did we get ...

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 ...

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 global development landscape is undergoing a profound transformation with ramifications across Asia. For decades, overseas development assistance (ODA) has played a critical role in building ...

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 ...

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 ...