According to U.N. estimates, the world faces a financing shortfall of $4 trillion annually to achieve these goals. This is a lot of money; it amounts to more than 6 percent of the total gross domestic ...

If Cairo refuses the offer and insists on rejecting Trump’s controversial plan, alternatives could mean redirecting economic aid meant for Egypt to other ... the second phase of the ceasefire after ...

Notwithstanding legal challenges, these decisions signal the end of an organisation that has brought crucial aid to millions globally. The move confirms the worst fears of the international community, ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. President Trump’s executive order on foreign aid, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s suspension of the U.S. Agency for ...

Trump ordered a 90-day pause on all U.S. foreign aid on his first day in office. That action, and ensuing stop-work orders halting many programs of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

Every year on the International Day of Happiness, March 20, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network releases the World Happiness Report. In the 2025 edition, Finland once more tops the list ...

Some Trump administration officials have crafted a proposal to restructure the U.S. international aid and development architecture, making it leaner, more focused and better positioned to take on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A first-time author has made history by taking out the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature with a picture book – the first ...

The move comes as multiple proposals circulate among State Department and USAID officials on what foreign assistance programs to save and how to carry them out as the Trump administration works to ...

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Until recently, it funded health and humanitarian aid programs in more than 130 countries ... which has led to a better result,” reads one 2025 report by the U.K.’s National Audit Office.

Unfortunately, the United States government’s decision to terminate thousands of humanitarian aid programs puts public and global health at risk. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of ...