USAID immediately began to oversee U.S. foreign aid programs to develop farming, irrigation and dam construction projects throughout Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, taking over the ...

(Part 2) It is well known that a major obstacle to faster growth and, more importantly, a more equitable distribution of income wealth in the Philippines is the concentration of economic activities in ...

But now, a group of former USAID staff has come together to connect big donors with cost-effective projects like this, which desperately need cash to carry out operations already in the pipeline ...

MANILA, Philippines – House of Representatives Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez believes the Marcos administration’s P20/kilo rice program is sustainable, considering the expected increase ...

USAID—has opened funding gaps in critical sectors such as education, health, and infrastructure, which the ADB’s new five-year strategy aims to help fill.

The Trump administration said at the end of February 2025 that it is freezing 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts, leaving few projects intact. It has also recalled nearly 10,000 USAID staff ...

USAID’s next phase At the end of the Cold War in 1991, the United States’ interest in spending money on helping poorer countries develop and modernize declined around the world.