A recent United States decision to shift its foreign assistance policy is a “black swan” event — one so rare the results are hard to predict — a former U.N. humanitarian leader told an audience at a Devex event on Tuesday.
Anthony Banbury, now president and CEO of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, was speaking to Senior Global Reporter Colum Lynch at a Devex Impact House event during the high-level week of the 80th United Nations General Assembly.
He said that we do not really know how much impact the U.S. withdrawal will have, but that he thought the system could cope so long as the U.S. did not actively oppose the work of the United Nations.
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David Ainsworth is business editor at Devex, where he writes about finance and funding issues for development institutions. He was previously a senior writer and editor for magazines specializing in nonprofits in the U.K. and worked as a policy and communications specialist in the nonprofit sector for a number of years. His team specializes in understanding reports and data and what it teaches us about how development functions.
