Foreign aid: Charity shouldn’t start at home

Last year David Cameron pledged to spend 0.7 percent of the UK’s income on foreign aid, a bold decision for a country still recovering from recession and with home grown poverty making headlines daily. But putting charity to one side does foreign aid actually make economic sense for both sides?

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European CEO speaks with Matthew Collin from the Centre for Global Development on the economic benefits of foreign aid.

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