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ANALYSIS | CHINA TREATS ITS FOREIGN AID LIKE A STATE SECRET. NEW RESEARCH AIMS TO REVEAL IT.
China treats its foreign assistance budget like a state secret, refusing to work with international bodies that try to coordinate and quantify foreign development funding... READ MORE›
DESPITE PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS, OFFICIALS SAY THE U.S. IS COMMITTED TO HUMANITARIAN AID
In raw numbers, the United States spends more money on humanitarian aid than any other country... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Development Aid
FOREIGN AID CUTS TO CONTRACEPTIVES IN TRUMP'S BUDGET HURT MILLIONS OF WOMEN
Melinda Gates Foreign aid cuts to contraceptives in Trump's budget hurt millions of women... READ MORE›
DROUGHT AND WAR HEIGHTEN THREAT OF NOT JUST 1 FAMINE, BUT 4
We underestimated the role of water and its contribution to mortality in the last famine, said Ann Thomas, a water, sanitation and hygiene specialist for Unicef... READ MORE›
SYRIA'S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: THREE WAYS TRUMP COULD HELP
Policy experts at Amnesty International USA, the International Rescue Committee and Care agreed that the travel bans blocked an important route to safety for Syrians... READ MORE›
AID WORKERS KIDNAPPED IN FAMINE-HIT SOUTH SUDAN
The situation in Mayendit, South Sudan, is a level 4 famine... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT XI JINPING OF CHINA PLEDGES 2 BILLION TO FIGHT POVERTY
President Xi Jinping told the United Nations on Saturday that China would pledge 2 billion as an initial investment for development assistance to the poorest countries... READ MORE›
UK'S FOREIGN AID GOES TO EU IN RUSH TO HIT TARGETS, SAY MPS
It emerged earlier this year that civil servants went on a 1 billion spending spree in just eight weeks to hit the Government's aid target... READ MORE›
FOREIGN AID BUDGET TO INCREASE BY ?1 BILLION
The new EU accounting rules, which are being phased in to all government departments, have not yet been applied to foreign aid spending... READ MORE›
INDIA TO SPEND A?10BILLION ON NEW WARSHIPS AND SUBMARINES
The decision came after India's finance minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Indian parliament We do not require the aid... READ MORE›
FOREIGN AID ADVOCATES AND FISCAL HAWKS ALL LIKE TRUMP'S NOMINEE TO HEAD USAID
A large proportion of those are expected to come from USAID, the lead agency for U.S. economic assistance... READ MORE›
BRITAIN SPENDS ON FOREIGN AID LIKE A DRUNK AT CLOSING TIME
But in a Government supposedly wracked by austerity, officials at the Department for International Development Dfid had to spend ?3.7 billion in just eight weeks... READ MORE›
CANADA'S LIBERALS WILL HELP FILL GLOBAL GAP FROM TRUMP'S BAN
Abortion funding Canada's Liberals will help fill global gap from Trump's ban... READ MORE›
LACK OF PAUSE IN YEMEN WAR DELAYS AID
Yemen, the region's poorest country, had one of the highest malnutrition rates in the world even before the recent conflict... READ MORE›
MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF AID MONEY IS AT RISK OF FALLING INTO CRIMINAL HANDS, WARN MPS
PIDG operates around the world, in countries including Ivory Coast, the Democratic of Congo and Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
A CHANNEL 4 NEWS PRESENTER PAID A?15K IN TAXPAYER MONEY FROM BRITAINS FOREIGN AID BUDGET FOR WORK IN MEXICO
Krishnan Guru-Murphy was paid ?15,000 in taxpayer money from Britain's foreign aid budget for work at a junket in Mexico... READ MORE›
TRAPEZE LESSONS AND CARIBBEAN CONFERENCES FUNDED BY BRITISH TAXPAYER VIA EUROPEAN AID PROGRAMME
TaxPayers rsquo Alliance accuses European Development Fund of lsquo squandering rsquo aid money from United Kingdom... READ MORE›
WHY BE SILENT ABOUT BRITAIN'S GENEROSITY TO THE WORLD?
As Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, has said, development aid is not a march towards charity but towards justice ... READ MORE›
KAYLA JEAN MUELLER: THE US HOSTAGE ISIS CLAIMS IS DEAD
Isis militants have claimed that Kayla Jean Mueller, a 26-year-old US aid worker, has been killed in a retaliatory air strike conducted by Jordanian planes... READ MORE›
DIRE CONDITIONS FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES ON JORDAN'S BORDER
As UN staff cannot cross the Jordanian border to distribute aid, that will be done by contractors... READ MORE›
CANADA WILL REVEAL ITS PLAN FOR ISIS FIGHT IN A 'COUPLE OF DAYS'
Moyer said he also sees a role for Canada in helping facilitate the movement of aid in the region... READ MORE›
A FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PHILOSOPHY FOR AN ERA OF LIMITED RESOURCES
Green, who has worked in development aid for three decades, has a reputation for both... READ MORE›
AID GROUPS CALL FOR LETTING SYRIAN REFUGEES WORK, PLUS INVESTMENT IN HOST COUNTRIES TO IMPROVE LIVES OF ALL
The money would go for development in countries such as Jordan and Lebanon to improve lives for both their own populations and refugees... READ MORE›
FIJI SUPER CYCLONE LEAVES THOUSANDS HOMELESS
Tens of thousands of Fijians are homeless and living in evacuation shelters a week after the devastating cyclone... READ MORE›
FOREIGN AID CAN HELP COMBAT ANTI-WESTERN SENTIMENT IN BANGLADESH
Does information about foreign aid improve people's opinions about the United States?... READ MORE›
FINE TALK AT WORLD HUMANITARIAN SUMMIT BUT NO STATE ACCOUNTABILITY, CRITICS SAY
Canada attended the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul -- an event criticized for its lack of concrete action and accountability... READ MORE›
GERMANY LEADS AID EFFORT WITH PLEDGE OF $3.6 BILLION
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced, as expected, that Australia would give an extra 25 million in humanitarian and development aid... READ MORE›
TRIBUTES PAID TO CONCERN CO-FOUNDER FATHER JACK FINUCANE
Concern Worldwide chief executive Dominic MacSorley said An unassuming leader, he brought intelligence, drive and passion to what is now Ireland's leading humanitarian and development organisation... READ MORE›
AID TO LIBERATED FALLUJAH'S DISPLACED SURVIVORS 'GROSSLY INADEQUATE'
Yet funding for Iraq's multiple humanitarian disasters is both little and late... READ MORE›
CAN AID HELP TO RESOLVE THE SYRIAN CRISIS?
And could aid help to find a political solution?... READ MORE›
CHINA'S FOREIGN AID EMBODIES ITS ADVANCED IDEA OF COOPERATION
China never views itself as a donator as some developed countries do when it comes to foreign aid, but a cooperative partner with the benefit countries... READ MORE›