# What’s the point of foreign aid?

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Podcast: [Inside Geneva](https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-geneva-404417)
Published: 2026-06-09T07:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail On our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we host a debate on a key question: what’s the point of foreign aid? “What’s the point of mobilising taxpayers’ money and sending it to faraway countries to assist vulnerable people? And how do you sell that to your own taxpayers?” says Gilles Carbonnier, former Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). There are more conflicts and greater needs, yet donor countries want to spend less. “What’s the point of m...

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