Millions of people in the developing world will suffer whether governments use aid budgets to cover the costs of hosting refugees or to bankroll security policies,anti-poverty groups sayHundreds of millions of people in the developing world will suffer whether European governments use their abroad aid budgets to cover the costs of hosting refugees or to bankroll their own domestic security policies, a coalition of charities and anti-poverty groups has claimed.
The warning comes as the OECD’s development assistance committee (DAC) – the body that defines and oversees what spending its members can count as aid – prepares to discuss the response to the refugee crisis and the development agenda for the next 15 years. This week also sees a European council meeting on migration and refugees. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com