The new UK aid strategy will tackle global challenges with one eye on domestic concerns. So long as the focus remains on development,that should be just fineThe UK international development committee is considering the government’s recently published aid strategy, on which I gave evidence final week as policy and research director of Save the Children UK.
A renewed emphasis on using aid in Britain’s interest – the strategy is called “tackling global challenges in the national interest” – has civil society commentators particularly exercised.
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Source: theguardian.com