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Pakistan receives lion’s share of Dfid aid

Pakistan received £374 million in aid from the UK

By: Eastern Eye Staff

BRITAIN increased its spending on overseas aid programmes in 2015, official data released yesterday (November 17) showed, with Pakistan and Ethiopia receiving the largest share of the money. The Department for International Development (DfID) spent £12.1 billion ($15 billion) last year, a rise of nearly four per cent from £11.7 billion ($14.55 billion) in 2014. The government, which has stuck to a UN pledge to spend 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product on foreign aid, has come under increasing scrutiny over how it spends its multi-billion dollar aid budget, which some lawmakers say would be better spent at home.…

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