I’m talking here of development aid. There’s no doubt that charitable aid can temporarily relieve suffering. But development is what the UN’s Development Goals, USAID (the US Agency for International ...

A basic follow-the-money analysis will highlight this: how money is redistributed in various ways from the affluent to those ...

The gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2025 has had catastrophic consequences, ...

Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II (1741-1790), summarized his “Enlightened Despotism” as “Everything for the people, nothing by the people.” Yet Americans who called British colonialism a form of ...

The progress in Palestine since 1920 is pointed out in a White Paper issued by the British Colonial Office “in order to give an idea of what was done during the last four years in paving the way ...

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier by Joe Studwell. Atlantic Monthly Press, 435 pages.

THE debate in the House of Commons on January 20 on the occasion of the third reading of the Overseas Resources Development Bill was poorly attended ; the apparent lack of interest was the more ...