Rich countries cut spending on humanitarian crises as demand rises
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Wealthy countries including the United States, Germany and Britain spent less on aid for humanitarian crises last year, even as the United Nations said it was dealing with unprecedented need, research released on Monday showed. The United States, the world’s biggest donor of humanitarian aid, cut its spending by six per cent […]
Aid must be directed to the world’s poorest, as income gap increases – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Development aid is failing to improve the lives of the poorest 20 per cent of the world’s population, according to a report published on Thursday that predicted growing global inequality. Poverty rates were halved under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which were adopted in 2000 and replaced in 2015 with 17 […]