A billion pounds?

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babysimon: "You could do a lot of good with £1bn"

How would you spend a billion pounds in order to do good? You can't spend it on yourself or your friends.

Comments

[nickys.livejournal.com]

Well, the calculation for aid tends to include stuff like money given to regimes to do stuff that involves paying British and US companies to do things at 20x the price that a local contractor could do them for...

... and tax rebates given to companies which donate things to the Third World, whether or not the things donated are actually useful...