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The End of Development The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative.

By Adam Tooze

A child carries water in a village east of Aweil, 
South Sudan, on March 6. The community was photographed for a story about the effect of the withdrawal of the U.S. Agency for International Development and other support on the war-torn region.

Why the World Turned on NGOs From powerbrokers in the ’90s to pariahs today.

By Suparna Chaudhry

Sisters Mwanahamisi Hasheem (sitting), 18, 
and Najma Hasheem, 26, work at a sewing shop 
in Matipwili village, 
Tanzania, on Jan. 23.

Africa Is Now Calling the Shots Governments, civil society, and the private sector are reimagining development away from external interventions.

By Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

How Big Finance Ate Foreign Aid Investors have drained the global south in pursuit of aggressive profit maximization.

By Daniela Gabor

The Development Economist Who Wasn’t Once dismissed from the field he helped found, Albert O. Hirschman feels newly relevant.

By Daniel W. Drezner

The End of Development
The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative.

By Adam Tooze

Why the World Turned on NGOs
From powerbrokers in the ’90s to pariahs today.

By Suparna Chaudhry

Africa Is Now Calling the Shots
Governments, civil society, and the private sector are reimagining development away from external interventions.

By Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

How Big Finance Ate Foreign Aid
Investors have drained the global south in pursuit of aggressive profit maximization.

By Daniela Gabor

The Development Economist Who Wasn’t
Once dismissed from the field he helped found, Albert O. Hirschman feels newly relevant.

By Daniel W. Drezner