Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi
Alyssa Morley,
Rachel Silver
Abstract:The decision of the United Kingdom government to reduce its Official Development Assistance by £ 4.6 billion in 2020 was framed by its proponents as a nationalist response to a domestic financial crisis. This Conservative‐led austerity measure triggered the early closure of hundreds of aid projects globally. Concerned British politicians equated the cuts to moral failures as humanitarian and civil society actors claimed the lost funding would devastate the world's most vulnerable populations. In the vast space… Show more
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