Two-year-old Mohammed Hashim died a year ago today.
His family were Rohingya refugees, and they went from three meals a day to one after US aid cuts.
His father, who Hashim begged for food as he grew weak, told the AP that Marco Rubio lied when he said no one died due to the funding cuts
New Zealand aid is rising! Kind of. Read my analysis here. terencew.substack.com/p/budget-202...
The strange case of the $162 million that didn't bark in the night.
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Josh Marshall
Terence Wood
Tim Hirschel-Burns
White liberals' response to George Floyd's murder was largely to increase symbolic support.
White liberals' exhibited little change in substantive/material policy commitments.
Interesting tracker of the human costs of US aid cuts: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
Good from Charles Kenny and Euan Ritchie on changing ODA thresholds: www.cgdev.org/blog/when-co...
Interesting on taxes, transfers and inequality: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
For a small country like New Zealand, in a time of economic pressure, $1.2 billion dollars seems like a lot of money to be spending on helping poor people outside of our borders. It's not though. I explain more in my latest newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/terencew...
The billions to trillions aid to leverage private finance approach has under-performed big time. Unsurprising. www.cgdev.org/blog/dealing...
A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children.
That is his legacy in this world.
