The UK’s International Development Strategy (IDS) has finally been published – but it fails to address the world’s biggest crises: poverty, inequality, human rights and climate change.
Instead, the IDS sets out an approach in which aid is deployed for geopolitical and self-serving economic interests – not to support vulnerable communities and the planet.
The document puts trade and investment at the heart of the UK's strategy for international development, claiming to deliver “honest and reliable investment”. But its primary intent is to counter China’s investment in low- and middle-income countries.
