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The real cost of gutting USAID

The real cost of gutting USAID

What are the consequences for the world after the US drastically cut its foreign aid?

Swamp Notes · Financial Times

August 9, 202518m 36s

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Show Notes

Six months after the Trump administration gutted the US Agency for International Development, experts are tracking the impact of its absence. The FT’s David Pilling and the Brookings Institution’s George Ingram describe the surprising ways countries are adapting to a world with less resources for the poor, sick and starving.


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