...be invested in Indian enterprises, while the rest funds technical expertise. Together these help develop new markets, whist creating jobs for some of India’s poorest and marginalised people. At the...
...UK-Africa Investment Summit in today's Daily Telegraph (January 1, 2020). Knocking on doors in my Reading West constituency during the general election, I heard very clearly that people were ready...
The front page of today’s Daily Express reports the UK is giving £98 million in aid to India. Since 2015, DFID has not given traditional aid to India, instead providing...
The Mail and the Mail Online have today (Saturday 3 November) both reported that the UK has provided more than £1 billion in aid to India during the time it...
International Development Secretary Alok Sharma meets girls learning how to code during a recent trip to Ethiopia. Picture: DFID/Anna Dubuis We must empower young girls and provide them with the...
A story in today’s Daily Mail refers to the UK Government giving aid to China, India and Nigeria while public services in Britain are “crying out for cash”. The Department...
...the Nepal flood response and £400,000 for India. Over 41 million people have been affected by monsoon rains in South Asia - 32.1m in India, 8m in Bangladesh and 1.7m...
Today’s copy (5 January) of The Times reports that the UK has ‘lied’ about ending poverty for millions of people in the poorest countries. The headline is unfair and the...
Papers have today reacted to the latest statistics on international development, published yesterday, which show the aid budget grew to nearly £14 billion in 2017 – because of the UK’s...
Today (Monday 4 December 2017), the BBC, Today Programme, Mail, Times and other newspapers reported on a Foreign Office aid programme in Syria run by contractor Adam Smith International (ASI)....