Since 2013 the UK has delivered on its pledge to spend 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) as official development assistance (ODA). The UK has now enshrined this commitment in law and will continue ...

In early March 2020, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) mandated the return of its experts engaged in official development assistance (ODA) projects abroad in response to COVID-19. This ...

Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) to China ended at the end of March after more than 40 years, bringing down the ...

Despite dramatic growth between 1990 and 2010, development assistance for health from high-income countries and development agencies to low- and middle-income countries has stagnated, and proposed ...

Across the developed world, citizens and their governments are reconsidering what types of spending best advance their interests at home and abroad. From 2018 to 2023, foreign aid from wealthy ...

JICA President Dr. Akihiko Tanaka at the "Post-2015 Global Development Framework" IMF/World Bank annual meeting in Tokyo on October 12, 2012. (World Bank Photo Collection/Flickr) The Japanese ...

Official development assistance (ODA) could be expanded to cover artificial intelligence (AI) and culture. The Office for Government Policy Coordination on Jan. 28 discussed this at a public hearing ...

The Council today approved conclusions on the EU development aid targets for 2020 in the form of the eleventh annual report to the European Council. The report welcomes the Commission’s analysis of ...