The International Crisis Group posted on 5 March 2025 a 25-minute podcast titled "The Aid System Is Collapsing. Now What?" with Alan Boswell and Sarah Pantuliano, CEO of the Overseas Development Institute.
This is a discussion of the Trump administration's dismantlement of USAID amid a trend of broader cuts to foreign aid by Western governments. Boswell and Pantuliano examine whether the abrupt funding freeze by USAID is collapsing aid operations on the ground and why that matters. They suggest we may be moving into a post-aid world that requires a more impactful form of investment. But in the meantime, disaster looms.
