Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Billions in overseas aid 'puts people off giving cash to charity'

Daily Mail
"Along with the NHS budget, international aid is the one part of government spending that is not facing cuts. It is set to double to £12billion a year by 2015. But the public overwhelmingly believes aid money discourages foreign governments from spending their own money, props up bad regimes and is ‘spent on projects that don’t deserve funding’.By a margin of 69 per cent to 7 per cent, voters agree that aid money ‘fails to reach ordinary people in the developed world and is wasted by corrupt governments’.

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