{"id":1024140,"date":"2023-03-14T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/14\/uk-aid-india-human-rights-democracy-watchdog"},"modified":"2023-03-14T00:01:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T00:01:32","slug":"uk-aid-to-india-does-little-for-human-rights-and-democracy-watchdog-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/14\/uk-aid-to-india-does-little-for-human-rights-and-democracy-watchdog-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"UK aid to India does little for human rights and democracy, watchdog finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Programme spent \u00a32.7bn between 2016 and 2021 but is fragmented and lacks a clear rationale, report says<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s aid programme to India is fragmented, lacks a clear rationale and does little to counter the negative trends in human rights and democracy in the country, the government\u2019s aid watchdog has found.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are likely to be used by those who claim the UK government risks using its aid programme to deepen its relationship with India, including seeking free trade deals, rather than attempting to reduce poverty, which is the statutory purpose of UK aid.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/14\/uk-aid-india-human-rights-democracy-watchdog\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programme spent \u00a32.7bn between 2016 and 2021 but is fragmented and lacks a clear rationale, report saysBritain\u2019s aid programme to India is fragmented, lacks a clear rationale and does little to counter the negative trends in human rights and democracy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1105,1318,1333,6,452,14,34,2038,1314,1,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026249,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024140\/revisions\/1026249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}