Tag: economic development

On Aug. 1, U.S. President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, after the release of a report that showed weak jobs numbers. He has since ...

In Foreign Policy’s Fall 2025 print issue, economic historian Adam Tooze makes the case that with hindsight, the global development agenda of the last few decades seems like “an effort ...

Amid the widespread outcry over the destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development, many of the agency’s defenders concede that the U.S. aid system needs to be reformed. They ...

The first week of March featured a moment of dark political comedy worthy of Veep creator Armando Iannucci. In a scene that felt scripted for satire, the United States became ...

In just nine months, the Trump administration has laid waste to the development landscape, dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and slashing nearly the entire U.S. foreign aid ...

United Nations summits typically unfold with a feverish intensity. Official delegates battle over every verb, dollar figure, and timeline in the outcome document. But there was little drama of multilateralism ...

It has been 140 years since imperialist powers gathered in Berlin for the scramble for Africa. Today, the power dynamics between the continent’s 54 diverse nations and the rest of ...

Amid so many other United Nations events this September, headlined by the procession of national leaders addressing the General Assembly, it would be easy to miss the celebration of the ...

Later this month, Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa will appear before the U.N. General Assembly—the first Syrian leader to do so since 1967. The world will be watching to see how he ...

At Summer Davos, Chinese Premier Li Qiang dismissed Western claims that China is flooding the world with excess supply, quipping that China isn’t “stupid enough” to subsidize exports. That may ...