Humanitarian Emergency Adviser Says UK Foreign Aid Should Lead with Trade Instead of ‘Degrowth’

A veteran government adviser on humanitarian emergencies has asserted that it is trade, not foreign aid, that has effectively lifted billions out of poverty, not a controversial United Nations-led “degrowth” strategy aimed at reducing production and consumption. Dr. Gilbert Greenall, a medic, army officer, and senior adviser to both the British government and the U.N. on humanitarian issues, told The Epoch Times that trade is paramount to the rapid economic development of the Global South as well as to ward off the Chinese usurping of African infrastructure. Dr. Greenall, who has four decades of experience in humanitarian disaster response, said that “moving a billion people out of poverty over the last 24 years has been [down to] trade not development.”...