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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Andy Sumner is co-director of the King’s International Development Institute at King’s College London. He is an interdisciplinary development economist. His research covers global poverty and Southeast Asia, specifically, Indonesia. Before taking his position at King’s college, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He holds associate positions at Oxford University at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. He is a vice president of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes and a council member of the Development Studies Association. He was listed in Foreign Policy Magazine’s ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’ and writes a regular column for Global Policy.
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