OPINION

Foreign aid, the powerful US soft power, is gone

Oped, Jeffrey Frankel, Published on 23/05/2025

» 'Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." When Joni Mitchell sang that line in 1970, she was lamenting the destruction of the environment, but the sentiment applies to many issues. Today, we can add official development assistance (ODA) to the list.