What do aid cuts mean for the world’s most vulnerable?

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In recent months, international aid and development assistance has witnessed major upheavals under Donald Trump’s new US government. While the US has frozen all foreign assistance and shut down the 60 year old US Agency for International Development, some European countries have followed suit, sacrificing overseas development aid  in favour of defence spending increases. 

This webinar is concerned with the implications of these profound changes on the lives of the most vulnerable, on existential planetary crises, and on the future of development cooperation. We invite three experts – Duncan Green (LSE and formally Oxfam GB), Indrajit Roy (University of York) and Sayed Jalal Shajjan (Journalist and development practitioner) - to share their perspectives on the impacts of these changes on global development and humanitarian assistance. The session will be chaired by Sara De Jong (University of York).