Whether or not you personally believe
in foreign aid spending is beside the point, the point is that informing people can change their opinion, and therefore, armed with accurate information people may vote differently.
Kudos to Norway, already a
leader in foreign aid as a share of GDP, for cancelling the bilateral debts of five poor nations.
Other key policies in the Ukip manifesto include an extra # 11 billion a year for the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament, funded by
cuts in foreign aid.
Nepal received more than $ 4.4 billion
in foreign aid after an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster killed more than 9,000 people in April.
Last year, all the European donor countries committed to spend 0.7 percent of their
GNP in foreign aid.
It seems foolish that the U.S. and other western nations donate billions of
dollars in foreign aid to the developing world, yet our massive corporations seem unable or unwilling to offer any special treatment to the struggling researchers who work there.
In 1959, as chairman of President Eisenhower's Committee to Study the Military Assistance Program, he published the «Draper Report,» which recommended the inclusion of family planning
assistance in the foreign aid program.