A year on from the largest contraction in the history of official development assistance, the conversation in Washington and across the philanthropic sector has not moved far. Funders, civil society, and policymakers continue to circle the same set of questions: how much was lost, what survived, who is hardest hit, and whether private giving can absorb the shock. Those are the right questions to start with. But we have to go further.
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