Development studies can survive the drying-up of foreign aid – if it adapts [Times Higher Education] ↳

With USAID's closure gutting hundreds of development projects and Canada, the U.K., and Germany also slashing aid budgets, a UC Berkeley lecturer argues university development studies programs must move away from decades of grant-focused, donor-dependent curricula and instead teach community-led, locally driven models to survive the sector's collapse and remain relevant..