The Merger of DFID and the Foreign Office

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Avantica Chokoti is an international reporter at the Economist. DFID, which doled out aid for Britain, was long considered one of the most efficient parts of government and a completely model aid agency. In 2020 Boris Johnson announced that he was going to merge the department with the foreign office.

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