DfID merger will be bad for poor countries and for the UK | Letters

  • 📰 The Guardian
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 1 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 4%
  • Publisher: 53%

United States News News

United States United States Latest News,United States United States Headlines

Letters:Readers, including former DfID staffers, on why integrating the development body with the Foreign Office is unwelcome news

The government is once again failing to learn the lessons of history in remerging the Department for International Development into the Foreign Office . This brings the danger that considerations other than the welfare of the people that DfID is supposed to be helping will be taken into account. One only has to think of the Pergau dam fiasco in Malaysia in the early 1990s, the economics of which were described by the then permanent secretary Sir Tim Lankester as “unambiguously bad”.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Why Brexit Happened. For Dominic Cummings to deliver Far-Right Libertarian policies: No NHS No Taxes No Social Services No Universal Credit No Human Rights Act No Financial Oversight See here: ExtendTheTransition StopBrexit SackJohnson SackCummings

Large % of Aid disappears thru Corruption end Foreign aid & give to our Own needy !

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 84. in US

United States United States Latest News, United States United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Fears over DfID and Foreign Office merger to be raised in CommonsSpeaker grants urgent question to Lib Dem MP after PM’s surprise announcement 'Fewerless' is a great word! Removes all uncertainty about whether 'fewer' or 'less' is the appropriate word. All hail the Grauniad! Johnston the most Shambolic incompetent government in history. Leaving the European Union now means Massive increases of UK Carbon Footprint and Contribution to Global Warming due to increase Transport of goods. Racist English Tory voters ashamed yet? Don’t tell Greta! 66000 dead DfID is horribly inefficient and needs to be radically restructured.
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »