Billions of public dollars have been wasted on corrupt and ineffective foreign-aid programs over the past several decades, but even so, rich countries must fix such flaws and increase their spending on development aid, says a new report by Oxfam International.
The report’s release coincides with this week’s gathering of international development ministers from the G8 nations.
Bev Oda, federal minister of international co-operation, will host her G8 counterparts in Halifax for a three-day meeting starting Monday.
One of the issues for discussion will be Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new foreign-aid priority of improving maternal health care in the world’s poorest countries.
The initiative, whose details are still unclear, has become politically bogged down over whether it should include new funding for birth control and access to abortion.
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So let me see if I understand this. We need to bankrupt our economies helping third world dictators to get rich, while their people starve. When we are as poor and destitute as they are, and the elite still live in comfort, then all will be well with the world.
Where’s my cheque book. (sarc off)
mid island mike
mike, you and Obama were college buddies? LOL
BTDT. I was blessed to not have the opportunity to attend secondary education and have never regretted it. You did see the sarc tag?
mis island mike