“Britain is backing an experiment to change the way aid is delivered in parts of Africa … The Department for International Development (Dfid) is providing £750,000 to fund a scheme to provide cash payments instead of food to tens of thousands of hungry people in northern Malawi … [This] represents a further shift by Britain and some other countries toward devolving responsibility for handling aid to those on the receiving end … That is in contrast to countries such as the United States, where most aid is assigned by the US Congress, often with political, economic and even social strings attached…”

The Guardian on the increasing divide between ways in which countries provide aid to the third world. Article here.

Posted Friday, February 16th, 2007 @ 11:38 am
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