{"id":6053,"date":"2014-07-14T07:26:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T07:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2014-07-14T07:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T07:26:45","slug":"the-0-7-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/07\/14\/the-0-7-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The 0.7% solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent brief discussion\u00a0in parliament<\/a>, about whether the 0.7% of GDP we devote to overseas aid should be fixed in legislation, throws light on\u00a0why DfID<\/a> decided to run its own education programme in England (with its new pals in Pearson<\/a>).\u00a0 It is clearly fearful that, without this dedicated input, people will not be persuaded that the government is right about having the 0.7% level of funding \u2013 as encouraged by the UN.\u00a0 It also no doubt hopes that all the principled arguments about the moral rightness of this policy will get round the awkward, persistent, real-world examples<\/a> of such aid being misused or mislaid. \u00a0Just imagine the fuss if the Ministry of Defence were to propose school programmes\u00a0like this to justify and get round the awkward outcomes of our foreign wars.<\/p>\n

Equally clearly, the DfID\u00a0message is aimed not just at children, but at their parents and wider family \u2013 that is, current voters. \u00a0Well, good luck with this;\u00a0as the literature shows, the conditions necessary for getting to parents via their children are exacting, and only those sympathetic, or already signed up, to the policy are likely to be reached. \u00a0Those indifferent to it will likely remain so, and those hostile will just be further irritated, sometimes to the detriment of the child. \u00a0The more you look at this, the dodgier it all gets.<\/p>\n

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A recent brief discussion\u00a0in parliament, about whether the 0.7% of GDP we devote to overseas aid should be fixed in legislation, throws light on\u00a0why DfID decided to run its own education programme in England (with its new pals in Pearson).\u00a0...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}