Should Ireland increase or decrease foreign aid spending?
In 2013 Ireland gave €628 million in overseas aid. The government states that the aim of Ireland's aid programme is to reduce poverty and hunger, particularly in sub- Saharan Africa. It supports long term development and provides humanitarian assistance in over eighty of the world's poorest countries.
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It should remain the same, but that money should be focused on only being given to schemes that are beneficial long term and not short term solutions with later negative results. Eg. Giving money to schemes that provide food to areas but employing people from that area to grow, make and handout that food, instead of buying cheap grain elsewhere and sending it to them.
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