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17 May 17
The US has significantly expanded its policy of refusing aid to organisations that provide abortion or offer advice and information on it. It will now affect $8.8bn worth of funding rather than $600m...
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17 May 17
Jordan cut its combined public sector deficit by 3.3 percentage points between 2015 and 2016, the International Monetary Fund has found.
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15 May 17
China has pledged to spend over $120bn in support of its ambitious development plan centred on building trade and connectivity infrastructure across Asia, Africa and Europe.
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12 May 17
UK Aid’s chief civil servant and CIPFA member Sir Mark Lowcock has been appointed as the next head of the United Nation’s humanitarian operations.
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10 May 17
The US has suspended $21m in aid to Kenya’s Ministry of Health due to concerns over “weak accounting procedures”.
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10 May 17
A growing trend towards earmarking public aid funds is burdening aid agencies with high administrative costs, the UK’s Overseas Development Institute has said.
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9 May 17
The UK’s emphasis on serving its own interests through its aid spending takes away from its effectiveness in reducing global poverty, according to a British economics think-tank.
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8 May 17
More and better public finance is essential to finding the 10.5% of GDP Asia-Pacific’s poorest countries need to bridge debilitating infrastructure gaps, according to the United Nations.
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5 May 17
The World Bank is to resume aid payments directly into Malawi’s budget, becoming the second donor to end an aid freeze to the country following high-level corruption revelations in 2013.
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2 May 17
Mozambique is to benefit from $1.7bn in World Bank funds until 2021 under a new programme that will initially concentrate on tackling the consequences of the country’s hidden borrowing.
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27 Apr 17
The UK should scale up its overseas aid to the “shamefully underfunded” education sector, British MPs have urged the country’s aid chief.
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26 Apr 17
Governments have raised almost $1.1bn for war-torn Yemen, where nearly two-thirds of the population – around 19 million people – are in need of aid.
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26 Apr 17
Thousands of refugees and migrants, including unaccompanied children, are being left stranded on Greek islands as a result of European Union policy, the bloc’s auditors have said.
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25 Apr 17
Asian Development Bank lending surpassed the $30bn mark for the first time in the bank’s 50-year history in 2016, its annual report has highlighted.
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25 Apr 17
The development impact of money channelled through UK Aid’s controversial private equity arm is still unclear, the country’s Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
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25 Apr 17
The African Development Bank will need more funding soon, its president has warned at an event in Washington DC.
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21 Apr 17
The UK’s commitment to spending 0.7% of its national income on aid would not be scrapped under a new Conservative government, prime minister Theresa May has said.
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20 Apr 17
Nigerian president Mohammadu Buhari has suspended two top officials implicated in a scandal over $43m in allegedly misdirected aid funds.
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19 Apr 17
All funding sources must be tapped in order to finance the Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations officials have stressed at a development finance conference.
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16 Apr 17
The UK has today announced £205m in aid to protect over 200 million people from treatable tropical diseases that receive little international attention.
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13 Apr 17
A fundamental rethink of development finance is needed to ensure the equality of opportunity that will prevent a descent into fragility, conflict and extremism, the head of the World Bank has said.
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12 Apr 17
Four major emerging economies have urged developed nations to boost their climate change aid to poorer countries, in line with commitments made under 2015’s landmark Paris agreement.
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11 Apr 17
Aid to the world’s poorest nations fell by almost 4% last year as western donors diverted funds to hosting refugees at home, the OECD has said.
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6 Apr 17
Campaigners have called for greater transparency in British aid spending as it is channelled through an increasingly broad range of government departments.
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6 Apr 17
The share of overseas aid that is given without conditions and untied to businesses in donor countries has dropped for the second time in two years, the OECD has said.
17 May 17The US has significantly expanded its policy of refusing aid to organisations that provide abortion or offer advice and information on it. It will now affect $8.8bn worth of funding rather than $600m...
17 May 17Jordan cut its combined public sector deficit by 3.3 percentage points between 2015 and 2016, the International Monetary Fund has found.
15 May 17China has pledged to spend over $120bn in support of its ambitious development plan centred on building trade and connectivity infrastructure across Asia, Africa and Europe.
12 May 17UK Aid’s chief civil servant and CIPFA member Sir Mark Lowcock has been appointed as the next head of the United Nation’s humanitarian operations.
10 May 17The US has suspended $21m in aid to Kenya’s Ministry of Health due to concerns over “weak accounting procedures”.
10 May 17A growing trend towards earmarking public aid funds is burdening aid agencies with high administrative costs, the UK’s Overseas Development Institute has said.
9 May 17The UK’s emphasis on serving its own interests through its aid spending takes away from its effectiveness in reducing global poverty, according to a British economics think-tank.
8 May 17More and better public finance is essential to finding the 10.5% of GDP Asia-Pacific’s poorest countries need to bridge debilitating infrastructure gaps, according to the United Nations.
5 May 17The World Bank is to resume aid payments directly into Malawi’s budget, becoming the second donor to end an aid freeze to the country following high-level corruption revelations in 2013.
2 May 17Mozambique is to benefit from $1.7bn in World Bank funds until 2021 under a new programme that will initially concentrate on tackling the consequences of the country’s hidden borrowing.
27 Apr 17The UK should scale up its overseas aid to the “shamefully underfunded” education sector, British MPs have urged the country’s aid chief.
26 Apr 17Governments have raised almost $1.1bn for war-torn Yemen, where nearly two-thirds of the population – around 19 million people – are in need of aid.
26 Apr 17Thousands of refugees and migrants, including unaccompanied children, are being left stranded on Greek islands as a result of European Union policy, the bloc’s auditors have said.
25 Apr 17The development impact of money channelled through UK Aid’s controversial private equity arm is still unclear, the country’s Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
25 Apr 17The African Development Bank will need more funding soon, its president has warned at an event in Washington DC.
21 Apr 17The UK’s commitment to spending 0.7% of its national income on aid would not be scrapped under a new Conservative government, prime minister Theresa May has said.
20 Apr 17Nigerian president Mohammadu Buhari has suspended two top officials implicated in a scandal over $43m in allegedly misdirected aid funds.
19 Apr 17All funding sources must be tapped in order to finance the Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations officials have stressed at a development finance conference.
13 Apr 17A fundamental rethink of development finance is needed to ensure the equality of opportunity that will prevent a descent into fragility, conflict and extremism, the head of the World Bank has said.
12 Apr 17Four major emerging economies have urged developed nations to boost their climate change aid to poorer countries, in line with commitments made under 2015’s landmark Paris agreement.
11 Apr 17Aid to the world’s poorest nations fell by almost 4% last year as western donors diverted funds to hosting refugees at home, the OECD has said.
