Profits from poverty: How big business is cashing in on aid

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 October 2012
Campaigns: Aid

Over the past decade, the Department for International Development (DfID) has increasingly been putting the culture and interests of the private sector at the heart of its work. Aid is being used to encourage private sector involvement in developing countries, whether this is in the form of supporting pro-market policies or directly channelling aid money through companies.