Tag: Development & Aid
47 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
Short Pauses, Long Shadows: War-Legacy Aid and Vietnam’s Trust in U.S. Commitments
In mid-February 2025, as tarps blew off piles of dioxin-soaked soil at Bien Hoa airbase and demining teams across central Vietnam were sent home without pay, diplomats cabled…
May 26, 2026
- Global Governance
Why US Foreign Aid Needs Development Diplomats
Introduction On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order freezing foreign assistance funds and laying the groundwork to dissolve the world’s largest…
May 29, 2025
- Dialogues
The Future of U.S. Diplomacy
GJIA: Do you agree that the role of a diplomat has changed considerably over the last few decades, with shifts in communication, power dynamics, and cybersecurity? How would you…
April 29, 2025
- Business & Economics
Delivering Promises for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
Introduction The Pakistani government celebrated the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in 2023 with great fanfare. Prime…
December 16, 2024
- Business & Economics
Beyond Financing: Sectoral-Complementary Foreign Direct Investment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Public investment gaps pose challenges to economic development in LAC The COVID-19 crisis has taken a toll on lives and livelihoods in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC),…
November 22, 2024
- Business & Economics
The Role of Sovereign Green Bonds in Chile’s Development
What are green bonds? Green bonds, issued for the first time in 2007 by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the World Bank, represent a major financial innovation of the last…
October 16, 2023
- Dialogues
Confronting Global Food Insecurity with U.S. Diplomatic Historian Kelly McFarland
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs: In the report Peace Through Food: Ending the Hunger-Instability Nexus, the Working Group described various explanations for worldwide…
February 3, 2023
- Business & Economics
Will the Belt and Road Initiative Be Another Casualty of the Pandemic?
China’s grand infrastructure development strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, at least when measured by the amount…
November 11, 2022
- Dialogues
- Student Review
Foreign Aid From a New Perspective: A Conversation with Dr. S.S. Regilme
GJIA: One of the book’s major points is that foreign aid politics stems from a logic of domination and moral superiority. It seems that conflict between superpowers fuels…
April 22, 2022
- Business & Economics
Latin America and the Caribbean’s Asymmetrical Engagement with China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented global circumstances, straining rich countries and the developing world alike, but disproportionately affecting the latter. While…
January 18, 2022