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http://www.theguardian.com/global-devel ... l-concerns

Must be bad if they're throwing their hands up already.

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Britain is axing a £100m aid programme to reduce poverty in Africa after accidentally channelling some money through the Zimbabwe government and finding "serious concerns" about financial oversight.

I thought that the coalitions plan was to eliminate this sort of screw up when they changed how they did things?

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we should not be giving financial aid abroad for any reason other then emergencies
a fund for that can be built from restricting/redirecting/saving current overseas aid.
charity begins at home ...

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The problem with that is that these people are already very poor and not helping them will make more of them come here to find work. So it is not really so straightforward. Also what guarantee that it will be used any more wisely here? It might simply go in tax cuts for the one percent.


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The problem with that is that these people are already very poor and not helping them will make more of them come here to find work. So it is not really so straightforward. Also what guarantee that it will be used any more wisely here? It might simply go in tax cuts for the one percent.


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India has a space program, we do not
Africa has a corruption problem, we do, just not as blatant

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MrStevenRogers wrote:
India has a space program, we do not
Africa has a corruption problem, we do, just not as blatant

Charity begins at home ...

We do have a space program we just do it with the European Space Agency. We could manage our aid better. I still think that we should give aid.

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