Justice Matters: Raiding the aid budget to pay for defence?

Sunday, 3 March 2013

Raiding the aid budget to pay for defence?

An interesting comment on the potential ripple effects of passporting DFID resources from development to peacekeeping:

"Campaigners point out that using the aid budget to pay for peacekeeping leaves the Ministry of Defence with more to spend on war."

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/02/problem-camerons-plan-raid-aid-budget-pay-defence

What do you think?

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