{"id":76327,"date":"2025-06-12T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76327"},"modified":"2025-06-12T07:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:18:30","slug":"voices-this-short-sighted-cut-to-foreign-aid-will-come-back-to-haunt-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/voices-this-short-sighted-cut-to-foreign-aid-will-come-back-to-haunt-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: This short-sighted cut to foreign aid will come back to haunt the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Gw0AZ.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=328&amp;y=90&amp;s=344&amp;d=417\" alt=\"Africa USAID Malaria\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was no comfort in today\u2019s spending review for those across all parties who care about international development. The reduction of Britain\u2019s overseas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/aid-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">aid budget<\/a> to meagre 0.3 per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/voices-this-short-sighted-cut-to-foreign-aid-will-come-back-to-haunt-the-uk\/ar-AA1GweZ3?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=b3c2cc591066409bb22c3fb21539c5c8&amp;ei=46\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>There was no comfort in today\u2019s spending review for those across all parties who care about international development. The reduction of Britain\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cholera-Zam.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76328,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76327\/revisions\/76328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}