This is a past event
Part of the Glasgow Centre for International Development Lecture Series 2012/13
Britain spends £7.8 billion a year on International Development and that figure is set to rise as the Government works to meet its target to spend 0.7% of Britain’s income on the poorest countries on the planet.
From Afghanistan to Congo to Zambia, British taxpayer’s money is being spent on everything from clean water to sanitation to tackling corruption.
But questions are being asked, with poverty alive and real at home, falling living standards, pay freezes, pension shortfalls and benefit cuts, why do we give aid?
Do we really get a dividend by spending billions of pounds in countries we only hear about in the news? Is it strategically important to us? Is it the right thing to do?
On 9 October 2012 International Development Select Committee member Michael McCann MP will be exploding some myths, telling it as it is and giving a no-holds barred account of whether aid stacks up.
More details here.
- Speaker
- Michael Mccann (Member of International Development Select Committee and MP East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow)
- Hosted by
- Glasgow Centre for International Development
- Venue
- Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre E15
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