The End of Aid | Full Debate | Hilary Benn, Bronwen Maddox, Thomas Dichter, Janne Teller
10A favourite debate from 2013: We think aid saves lives. Yet the IMF warns there is no correlation between aid and growth. Might the UK's £11bn maintain the very cycles of poverty it seeks to abolish? Worse still, is it another name for colonialism? Or would giving up on aid mean a neglect of our responsibility to the world's poorest?
Thomas Dichter: Dichter has worked in international development for almost half a century. He has served as a Senior Consultant to the World Bank, UN and numerous leading global NGOs.
Hilary Benn: Minister for International Development under Blair and Minister for the Environment under Brown, Benn is now a key part of Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet.
Bronwen Maddox: Maddox has been Editor of Prospect magazine since 2010. Previously she had served as Washington Bureau Chief and US Editor at the Times. In 2008 she published In Defence of America.
Janne Teller: Danish novelist and former UN economist Janne Teller recently organised a petition by more than five-hundred international authors against mass surveillance. Her books include existential novel Nothing.
Theme 1: What is Aid trying to achieve and does it work?
Theme 2: Is Aid a form of colonialism?
Theme 3: Should we give up on international Aid?
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