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Originally Posted by frogstamper
I imagine the 37% increase to the Overseas Aid budget will rankle at the Mail and Telegraph, this increase actually makes the UK the first country to meet the 0.7% of GDP obligation agreed upon forty years ago.
Whatever the motives behind this, this is good news for some of the poorest people on the planet.
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That is of course if the money actually reaches them. And isn't just syphoned off by the govenments of the countries the money is sent to.