NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

By Lee Crawfurd

Headlines on aid and global development are grim right now. The decimation of USAID has been swiftly followed by major cuts announced in the UK, and smaller cuts planned from a raft of European donors. Many of these aid cuts will lead to people dying. CGD Non-Resident Fellow Ken Opalo writes “this is the end of the aid paradigm.” Our friends at ODI are running a project on a “Post-Aid World”. I don’t think we should give up so easily.