Episode Synopsis "USAID and the Concerns With International Aid Organisation Models w/ The University of Auckland's Ritesh Shah"

Recently, the Trump Administration has cut 90% of funding to USAID; the largest international aid organisation. This move has received wide condemnation regarding what this will mean for those reliant on the support provided through the initiative. At the same time, in his opinion piece on Newsroom, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, Ritesh Shah, analyses the current international aid structure with the substantial funding cuts to USAID, and calls for international aid agencies to redirect what he says are their vested interests News and Editorial Director, Joel, started off by asking him should other prominent aid agencies, including the New Zealand Agency for International Development, reevaluate how foreign aid is delivered.

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