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At a time of cuts in public expenditure Britain s Coalition government is committed not only to maintaining the UK s foreign aid budget but to increasing it in order to meet the target of 0.
Aiding and abetting law 7 per cent of GDP despite opinion polls that show it to be unpopular with the electorate Jonathan Foreman explains why scepticism about the utility and even morality of much foreign aid is than justified why so much of the rhetoric used to justify the UK s lavish aid policy is disingenuous or dishonest and why 0.
Aiding and abetting rsmo 7 per cent of GDP is an arbitrary number unconnected with either poor country needs or rich country capability He argues that after six decades and than three trillion dollars of official development aid there is little evidence for its effectiveness Development aid tends to undermine good government enrich corrupt tyrants and subsidise warlords rather than promote economic growth Meanwhile emergency or humanitarian aid the imagery of which is used by the aid industry and the government to market all foreign aid is a much complicated difficult and morally problematic activity than its promoters and many practitioners would like the public to know While government officials claim that British aid benefits the UK as well as its intended recipients by winning goodwill and by making foreign conflict and mass immigration less likely there is little or no evidence that any of these claims are true Foreman does not argue for an end to aid but rather that it should be reality based rather than faith based i.
Aiding and abetting examples e it should rest on realistic calculations about the likely fate of donations to poor country governments UN agencies international bureaucracies and large charities He recommends abandoning the 0.
Aiding and abetting means 7 per cent target a Royal Commission to investigate the purpose of foreign aid shifting up to one third of the aid budget and a significant part of UK emergency aid to those branches of the armed forces which have the capacity to deliver it effectively than NGOs and the funding of the BBC World Service from the aid budget Aiding And Abetting Foreign Aid Failures And The 0.7% Deception.
