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#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers
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The Discourse of Overseas Development Aid
Under its international development act in its original form when I ran it had been very carefully protected from the temptations that other development agencies face. The culture within that department was pretty allergic to the idea of thinking about the UK national interest or trading benefits for these other things. But even in its its purer earlier form, there were still many, many problems and those problems weren't really about trying to use the money to derive UK national interest benefit. It was much more about the juddering fashions and intuitions of civil servants, politicians and donors.
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