In what may have been the most cordial meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Obama’s ascendancy to the White House, the two leaders discussed how to protect Israel’s interests during the ongoing civil war in neighboring Syria.
Angus Deaton, who was yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, is a strong critic of foreign aid, arguing that it does more harm than good, damaging the opportunities for poor people to grow richer. Deaton, who was awarded the
British aid money is simultaneously being spent on lobbying countries to overturn their death penalty laws, and to assist Pakistani forces in capturing drug smugglers, who face capital punishment if caught. Tanzania, Belarus, Nigeria, Kazakhstan and South Sudan and China
British foreign aid money is helping fund executions in Pakistan, a human rights group has claimed. Legal charity Reprieve, which campaigns against the death penalty, says that nearly £13 million has been used to fund anti-drugs operations in the country,
The Iran deal will provide Iran with a cash windfall as sanctions are eased and assets are unfrozen. The total amount is estimated to be as high as $150 billion. If so, the Iran deal would give more cash to Iran than
Britain has wasted a fortune on funding schemes for foreign police forces that have increased crime, corruption and political repression. Over the past four years, Diana Good, who was appointed to scrutinise Britain’s foreign aid funding, found numerous examples of
Think about the EU for a moment – yes, it’s painful but important. Regard all those lavishly-funded Eurocrats sitting in Brussels and Strasbourg. They are forever working out ways to spend the money sent their way by British taxpayers while they
Britain is set to give an extra £16m to a foreign aid to a project that funded Ethiopia’s version of the Spice Girls, despite warnings that it will be a waste of money. The Department for International Development (DfID) is
Migrant workers living and working in Europe sent home $109 billion last year, with $17.1 billion (£10.9 billion) flowing out of Britain alone, a new report has found. The amount sent by migrant workers out of Britain roughly equals the total
While Britain’s own defence budget is being slashed, MPs have discovered that the ring-fenced overseas aid budget is helping to fund armies in developing countries. Research from the House of Commons Library found that defence spending in some of the
Ben Affleck traveled to Washington D.C. Thursday to offer testimony before the U.S. Senate about the importance of foreign aid in Africa, citing his philanthropic efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but he also stopped to reference his upcoming Batman film.
The King of Jordan reportedly referenced a Clint Eastwood movie in describing how his government would respond to the recent atrocity committed by the Islamic State against fighter pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, in which the Jordanian 1st Lieutenant was placed in a cage and then abruptly set on fire.
MPs have uncovered massive waste in the EU’s aid spending programmes, to which the UK is a major contributor. Thanks to a culture within the European Commission which deems a project a success only when the full budget has been
Britain gave more than £1 billion to some of the world’s most corrupt countries in 2013, possibly even helping fund extremism, despite numerous warnings that the money was being misspent. Anti-corruption group Transparency International says that all but 20 of