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Blog Post
April 02, 2025
On Friday, the administration sent a memo on the future of USAID to the agency’s staff. It makes clear that the strategy continues to be “cut and reorganize first, ask permission later”—putting forward a vision for the full abolition of USAID. Regarding reorganization, remaining USAID staff have re...
Blog Post
March 31, 2025
As the USAID cuts shutter projects worldwide, Chinese officials are certainly making the most of the opportunity. The country has stepped in to fund child literacy, nutrition, and landmine clearance programs in Cambodia previously backed by the US and has made overtures to Nepal and Colombia about f...
Blog Post
March 31, 2025
Last week I was at the annual conference of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) in Oxford. In all there were about 259 papers presented, which may make it the biggest development economics conference in the world (NEUDC, the largest development economics conference in North America ...
Blog Post
March 27, 2025
In a list of thousands of terminated USAID awards that was sent to Congress this week is a devastating cut suggesting the Trump administration might be planning to end funding to Gavi, the global initiative that helps provide life-saving vaccines for children in the poorest countries in the world. T...
Blog Post
March 26, 2025
Last week, we published an estimate of cuts to USAID programs at the sectoral level based on two leaked documents covering cancelled and retained awards. Since then, a new version of the terminated and retained awards list was shared with Congress. Using that updated list, we revise our earlier sect...
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