For years, the U.S. Agency for International Development has been the main channel for U.S. development spending. But with the U.S. government scrapping 85% of USAID programs, it will only be a matter of time until the world feels the full force of the cuts.
Devex recently provided an analysis of the countries that are most vulnerable to reductions in aid spending. This new analysis offers deeper insight into the countries most at risk from cuts specifically to USAID, by comparing a country’s government spending to its official development assistance, or ODA, received from the U.S.
This is because the more a country spends domestically on its own development, the less sensitive it will be to shifts in development spending by countries from the global north.