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Which countries actually meet the 0.7% target?
Only five - the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg. The US, the world's richest country, allocates only 0.1% of GDP to aid, less than half of the OECD average. Britain, for all its talk, devotes less than the EU average (0.33%) with 0.32%.

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Britain, for all its talk, devotes less than the EU average (0.33%) with 0.32%.

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That's mainly cos we're cheapskates.

They were better off when we were in charge anyway...

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Britain, for all its talk, devotes less than the EU average (0.33%) with 0.32%.

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That's mainly cos we're cheapskates.

They were better off when we were in charge anyway...

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It's just a different policy, that's all.

Other countries send money so that people in poor countries can have better lives.

We let the people in poor countries come and live in Britain and give them free stuff.