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This What a Feminist Foreign Policy Looks Like

America’s neighbors to the north are mounting an experiment. Last week, Canada announced its “first feminist international-assistance policy,” following comprehensive public consultations which took place last summer in more than 300 sessions involving over 15,000 people in about 65 countries....

What We Mean When We Talk About “Foreign Aid”

  Foreign aid is one of those issues that is pretty widely mis-understood by the general public. Could you guess the percentage of the US budget that goes to foreign aid? It is probably much less than you think. So...

3 Charts that Explain the State of Foreign Aid

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, better known as the OECD, is an international institution with 34 member states, mostly from advanced economies in North America, Europe, the Commonwealth, a few countries in Latin America plus Japan. Every year,...

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...