As EU pares budgets, Turkey and Korea step up aid spending | EurActiv | Timothy Spence - European Union, media

As EU pares budgets, Turkey and Korea step up aid spending | EurActiv | Timothy Spence

EU candidate Turkey and South Korea, nations that have watched their own fortunes surge in a generation, are ramping up aid programmes for poor nations at a time when such spending in Europe is under threat, a EurActiv analysis of aid statistics shows.

Turkey and South Korea figure among a handful of nations that are giving more to help poor countries at a time when the traditional heavy-hitters - the EU, Japan and the United States – are struggling with domestic budgetary problems and are on course to scale back their overseas commitments.

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