Aid
News, comment and features on aid, aid policy, aid data and aid spending
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Coronavirus, conflict and cuts to UN funding are increasing the risks of food insecurity and acute malnutrition in 2021
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‘Extremely dangerous’ if personal information needed to process mobile payments is lost or falls into wrong hands, say staff
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Cutting foreign aid will put girls at risk
Caroline NokesNow, mid-pandemic, would be the worst time to abandon our commitment to the world’s poorest countries -
Exclusive: experts sign letter warning against slashing spending on public-private programmes
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Letters: Readers respond after the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, cut international aid by a third in his spending review
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Reduction came before this week’s move to slash UK spending on poorer nations to 0.5% of national income, with girls worst affected
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Letters: It’s too easy to cut overseas aid and screw the public servants who have kept the country running while the government has been busy ladling out money to its friends, writes Nick Ward. Plus letters from Sue Rabbitt Roff, Adrian Cosker, Ian Hodge, Rae Street, Bill Bradbury, Tim Tozer and Margaret Squires
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Foreign secretary says it is not known when 0.7% target, set in law, will be restored
Is Theresa May really the only Tory willing to hold this prime minister to account?