Budget support is aid provided directly to a partner government's central exchequer, and aims to reduce poverty through helping to fund the poverty reduction st

In the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review the Coalition Government announced its decision to achieve the internationally agreed target of providing 0.7 percent

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The Government recognises that aid spending has sometimes been controversial at home because people want to know that it is squarely in the UK's national intere