And We Still Send Aid ?

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/india-moon-landing-live-updates-chandrayaan-3-making-historic-bid-to-reach-south-pole-of-lunar-surface-12945600

Surely the vast amount of money used for this would be better off used to feed its people

[sp1814]

Bobbisox

Not as straightforward as that.

Sometime after 2011, Department for International Development (DFID) stopped providing direct financial aid to the Indian government.

The UK continued to provide other forms of bilateral aid to India through DFID, cross-government funds and other government departments.

This aid has been in the form of technical assistance and research funding, as well as ‘development capital’ investment in the private sector.

The UK has also continued to provide multilateral aid through core contributions to multilateral organisations. The UK government has increasingly used a ‘mutual prosperity’ approach, whereby aid explicitly benefits both countries, to justify continuing aid to India.

From: https://icai.independent.gov.uk/html-version/uk-aid-to-india/

We need to appreciate that 'aid' in gh modern sense isn't simply seding money abroad. Aid in this sense is a means of developing 'soft power'

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah. Quite a few so called poor/developing nations seem to be swinging the lead. All the advantages, and joining criteria, need a major drains up.

[tomus42]

I thought we stopped the 'aid' a few years back as a direct result of an Indian government minister calling it peanuts. Rightly so. Well done for the moon landing though.