European NGO confederation finds development money being spent on tackling refugee crisis and border security rather than fighting poverty and inequalityA report published on Tuesday by Concord,the European NGO confederation for relief and development, documents an emerging trend among member states to divert aid budgets from sustainable development to domestic costs associated with hosting refugees and asylum seekers.
Some of the expenditure items EU countries report as aid do not translate into a genuine transfer of resources to developing countries or, and ultimately,to people who are destitute and marginalised, the report has found.
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Source: theguardian.com