Surprise impacts of the UK’s 0.7% GDP aid commitment?

by | Jun 11, 2011


News this morning from Reuters (here) that Ethiopia is buying 200 tanks from the Ukraine for US$100m (£62m).

This reminded me of a similar figure from a few months ago of US$96m (£59m)…

…which is the rise in UK bilateral aid to Ethiopia, 2010/11 (£241m/year) vs 2012/13 (£300m/year) reported in DFID’s bilateral aid review.

A surprise consequence of the UK’s 0.7% GDP aid commitment perhaps or a hazard of tying the UK’s narrative on development policy too much to aid volumes perhaps rather than more genuine development policies and national politics?

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