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Ben Jennings' take on the 'aid for trade' story

By Pontus Westerberg, 2 April 2012

It is increasingly looking like the British government is using aid as a way to further British business interests rather than to fight global poverty. This worrying trend prompted our director, Deborah Doane, to write in the Guardian clarifying that since the Pergau Dam legal case that the World Development Movement won in 1994, tied aid has been illegal. This is cartoonist Ben Jennings' take on the story.

Cartoon showing a fighter plan dropping aid boxes

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Pontus Westerberg

Pontus is web officer at WDM. He looks after WDM’s websites, social media channels, emails and anything else digital.

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