Developing countries therefore need to prepare for a future where aid plays a ...

For decades, these countries have subsided on a lean diet of foreign aid from major donor governments and the United Nations, the World Bank, and other multilateral institutions. Yet under President ...

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 ...

As traditional donors slash foreign-aid budgets, developing countries must mobilize a broader range of financing sources. National development banks, sovereign wealth funds, debt swaps, and ...

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 ...

As leaders from around the world gathered in Seville, Spain, at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) to discuss how to finance sustainable economic development, a ...

By that measure, Norway gave 1.1% of its GNI and topped the list in 2023, followed by Luxembourg (1%), Sweden (0.9%), Germany ...

On February 3, 2025, exactly 20 years after former South African President Nelson Mandela stood in front of a cheering crowd in London’s Trafalgar Square to launch a historic global campaign to “make ...

The Sevilla Commitment and Platform for Action advance concrete strategic steps to fulfill the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals and chart a path for a fairer shared future, reaffirming the ...

While development aid is an often-overlooked aspect in bilateral relations and geopolitics, international development cooperation is a prominent foreign policy tool for China, as was foreign aid for ...