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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: The International Development Implications of Brexit
Description: Both the European Union and the United Kingdom are important players in international development. In fact the EU is the single largest foreign aid provider; and the United Kingdom's own aid programs, run by the Department for International Development, or DfID, are considered some of the more innovative programs in this space. Also, the UK is one of just a few countries to actually have met a commitment to spend 0.7% of its gross national income on global development. So, it would seem the fallout from Brexit could potentially be pretty profound for international development. Â To go over these b...