What’s the point of foreign aid?

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Jun 9, 202659:27News & Politics

Send us Fan Mail On our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we host a debate on a key question: what’s the point of foreign aid? “What’s the point of mobilising taxpayers’ money and sending it to faraway countries to assist...

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