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The new U.K. budget saw more aid money moving away from the Department for International Development (DfID) and to other areas, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence. The overall percentage of aid money spent by DfID fell from 86 percent to 70 percent, in the plan released late last year. The ability to make such changes exposes the shortcomings of the 0.7 percent target, said Owen Barder, senior fellow with the think tank the Center for Global Development, in a December blog post.
“Aid advocates should be careful what they wish for,” he wrote. “If you advocate for an input target like 0.7 percent, you don’t have have a leg to stand on when the government hits the target but uses the money for whatever it can get away with within the rules.”
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