U.K. Aid Used to Build Luxury Housing

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An investment branch of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) aid agency has come under fire for subsidizing Avance Ingenieros to build elite housing projects in El Salvador at the expense of the UK taxpayer, according to an investigation by the Guardian newspaper. This is not an accident or mistake, it’s policy. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15954

See also British aid money invested in gated communities and shopping centres which shows that this is not an isolated case.

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