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A Very Big Deal in Addis

What if I told you every country on the planet just agreed to finance the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030–and do so in an environmentally sustainable way? You’d think it would be front page news, right? This is exactly...

Why Most Foreign Aid Does Not Go to the Poorest Countries

Here’s a statistic that may surprise you: most foreign aid does not go to the poorest countries on earth. In fact, only about 30% of official development assistance from donor governments goes to the 47 least developed countries in the...