The End of the Global Aid Industry

The End of the Global Aid Industry

USAID’s demise is an opportunity to prioritize industrialization over charity.

Gutting of USAID causes ‘devastating’ global health void: Atul Gawande

Indian American surgeon and best-selling author Atul Gawande says Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) caused “devastating” damage to millions of people and to the U.S. as a global health leader. Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and faculty member at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Medical School, says “USAID cannot be restored to what it was, but it i…

The End of the Global Aid Industry - Other News - Voices against the tide

By Zainab Usman* – Foreign Affairs USAID’s Demise Is an Opportunity to Prioritize Industrialization Over Charity 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 budgets, and lobby for the creation or dissolution of a UN initiative or two. Typically, once the aid industry conforms to the whims of d…