Alyssa Morley

Jan 3, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alyssa Morley |Rachel Silver

INTRODUCTION When the government of the United Kingdom (UK) reduced its budgetary allocation for Official Development Assistance (ODA) by more than £ 4 billion in November 2020, hundreds of aid projects around the world ground to a halt. A Conservative-led austerity measure, the cuts were justified as a nationalist response to the fiscal crisis in the UK that resulted from COVID-19 and Brexit (Acast, 2021; NAO, 2022).