@emmalush wrote:
I think many that voted new labour did so on the basis that £7.5 billion of tax payers money would be sent to africa. Seems like folk need to learn the hard way.
Fulfilling a promise made in last November’s pre-Budget report, Mr Brown said the aid budget would increase by £1.5bn to reach almost £4.6bn in 2005/06.
That equates to 0.4% of national income, less than half a penny in every pound.
In November last year, Mr Brown hitched his wagon to an ambitious initiative from the UN, which aims to boost aid from the rich world by $50bn a year to almost $100bn.
Over the next 14 years, the UN aims to halve global poverty, reduce infant mortality by two-thirds, and make primary education available to all the world’s children.