Geopolitics, not generosity, steering NZ aid

Geopolitics, not generosity, steering NZ aid

If New Zealand’s foreign aid programme focused only on need, most of our money would go to sub-Saharan Africa. Instead, the lion’s share goes to the Pacific. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, according to foreign aid expert Terence Wood, but it’s not purely based on largesse, either. “Geo-strategic thinking is starting to motivate where we focus our aid and that’s just not a good driving force for aid-giving, you really want to be thinking abo…