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 Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2026 (FSDR), a new UN report launched on Monday, finds that with just four years left until the 2030 deadline for the Agenda for Sustainable ...

Wealthy nations slashed their development aid in 2025, probably by record-breaking amounts, a debt group said, ahead of data ...

Fragmenting world worsens finance squeeze, reversing decades of progress on development, UN report warns. UNITED NATIONS, 9 April 2026 – Development financing trends are going i ...

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 ...

Four takeaways, three charts, and one existential question raised by new data on official development assistance.

Global fragmentation, deepening geopolitical tensions and conflicts are putting decades of development progress at risk, the ...

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 ...

Every decade or so, the global aid industry finds that it must transform to survive. During these periods of change, donor countries restructure their aid agencies, shrink or expand their assistance ...