The Guardian view on aid cuts: Britain championed development funding – its meanness is shortsighted | Editorial

The steep reductions are a grave error, both morally and pragmatically. But a better case needs to be made for spending Progress is possible. Over two decades, global child mortality plummeted. There were many reasons for a 39% reduction in deaths in lower and middle income countries between 2001 and 2021, but a significant one was overseas development aid, which supported everything from sanitation to vaccination programmes to food security. That shift has slowed, and – like similar advances...

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