The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development this year left countries scrambling, with many analysts going as far as calling the shutdown inhumane. But values were never the real driver of the global development agenda, says FP columnist Adam Tooze—it was actually about power. Now that the United States has stepped back, can China fill the void? Does it want to? Tooze sits down with host Ravi Agrawal to discuss his piece “The End of Development” in FP’s latest print issue.
Plus, One Thing from Ravi on the global connections to the Charlie Kirk killing.
Alejandro Reyes: Why Charlie Kirk’s White Nationalism Resonated With Some Nonwhites Abroad
Adam Tooze: The End of Development
Adam’s economics podcast: Ones and Tooze
Daniela Gabor: How Big Finance Ate Foreign Aid
Henry Tugendhat and James Palmer: Can China Replace USAID?
David C. Engerman: The Problem With the Global South’s Self-Help Push
Suparna Chaudhry: Why the World Turned on NGOs
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