Tag: Foreign Aid

Food aid interventions can curb climate change-induced hardship. But should they do more?

CHIPINGE, Zimbabwe -- Gertrude Siduna appears to have little appetite for corn farming season.Rather than prepare her land in Zimbabwe’s arid southeastern Chipinge...

Malawi receives an insurance payout of $11.2 million for El Nino-linked drought disaster

BLANTYRE, Malawi -- The Malawian government has received an insurance payout of $11.2 million for a crippling El Nino-linked drought that led the...

Congressional Budget Office raises this year’s federal budget deficit projection by $400 billion

WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that it projects this year’s federal budget deficit to be $400 billion higher, a 27%...