14th Dec 2010
Today the government of The Republic of Ireland announced its ‘National Recovery Plan’. This is essentially an emergency budget which outlines a programme of cuts in public spending in the wake of the Irish Government’s decision to accept a package of financial assistance from the EU, the UK and the IMF. As part of this [...]
20th Oct 2010
Summary The Comprehensive spending Review (CSR) announced on the 20th October 2010 solidified the UK Government’s promises to protect the aid budget from the cuts inflicted on other government departments. The announcement also set out the Government’s plans to achieve the goal of increasing the UK’s ODA to 0.7% of GDP by 2013. Although the [...]
26th Mar 2010
Aid levels remain more or less constant in UK Chancellor Alistair Darling’s budget, released on 24 March. Development Initiatives, through the Budget4Change programme, had initially feared that the Foreign Office budget would be cut in 2010-11. This could possibly have been bad news for aid volumes, as more than 5% of the Foreign Office budget [...]
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