Far more of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s planned spending may have been retained following recent aid cuts than had previously been thought, according to fresh calculations from the Center for Global Development.
CGD, a development think tank, made in-depth calculations based on two leaked lists of canceled and retained USAID awards, which have been widely circulated in the aid community.
According to CGD calculations, published in a blog on March 20, it is likely that only around 34% of all USAID awards, by dollar value, have been terminated.
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David Ainsworth@daveainsworth4
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.
