The Daily Mail continued to push its anti-foreign aid sentiment this week, with its headline on Wednesday: “Billions in overseas aid puts people off giving cash to charity”. The paper reports on research published by Politics.com and YouGov@Cambridge which suggests that one in five voters will never donate to an overseas aid charity because they think the money is wasted.
The real question about overseas aid
It's not the UK's aid budget that hinders development, it's free-market capitalism.