當人民需要幫助時 英國援助馬來西亞自行車道

當我們國家人民需要幫助時，這太可惡了” | 英國援助馬來西亞自行車道

“It’s OBSCENE When People In Our Country Are In Need” | UK Aid Spent On Cycle Lanes In Malaysia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99yG6THe10

2024年8月21日 倫敦
英國納稅人的錢被揮霍在了中國歌劇、墨西哥自行車道和馬來西亞的道路計劃上——而英國的貧困地區卻被忽視了。

超過300萬英鎊的外國援助流向了富裕的海外地區，資助了上海的全女性中國歌劇、吉隆坡的反擁堵措施和墨西哥城的自行車道等項目。

經濟事務研究所 (IEA) 的一份報告顯示，援助資金已資助了8個比英國部分地區富裕的地區的13個項目。該研究將這些地區的人均GDP與英國最貧窮的地區北愛爾蘭的阿茲和北唐進行了比較。

朱莉婭·哈特利-布魯爾 (Julia Hartley-Brewer) 與國際能源署通訊官雷姆·易卜拉欣 (Reem Ibrahim) 進行交談。
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
現在讓我們談談 Story 看，我們多年來多次談到外國艾滋病，但納稅人一直在資助世界上比英國某些地區更富裕的地區的發展項目，這是根據經濟事務研究所的一份新報告，我的意思是這包括中國等敵對國家，順便說一句，這些國家非常富裕，他們擁有火箭計劃和核武器等，但哦不，我們絕對應該把我們辛苦賺來的錢寄給他們，讓我們和 Ia ree 的通訊官 ree Ibrahim 談談這個問題，我的意思是這些統計數據絕對是這些地方有多少錢特別的，我的意思是告訴我們這些地方有多少錢

Reem Ibrahim
這絕對是特別的，所以謝謝你邀請我來 Julia，這篇論文有效地研究了我們目前正在資助的世界地區，所以納稅人的錢將流向這些地區，用於非常不為人知的發展項目，實際上這些地區的世界上的很多地區都比英國的某些地區富裕得多，所以我們研究了英國不同地區的人均 GDP，所以這一切都是基於人均 GDP 的，實際上我們發現世界上有很多地區我們花錢的地方其實並不富裕，嗯，比英國的某些地區富裕得多，例如我們再次研究了中國的一些地區
正如你所說，中國是英國的敵對國家，其人均 GDP 為 27,500，比英國的 69 個地區還要多，所以納稅人的錢流向了世界上由敵對國家管理的地區，事實上
這些地區實際上比 69 個地區富裕得多，這太瘋狂了，不是嗎

Julia Hartley-Brewer
像我指的是中國上海的地方，馬來西亞的 koala Loa，我是說我去過我去過 quala Luma，我是說你知道我確信 quala Luma 中有一些需要幫助的人我更傾向於認為馬來西亞政府應該照顧這些人，我們並不是在談論向世界上一些戰亂地區提供援助，那裏的人們是內戰的受害者，他們沒有其他人可以幫助，也沒有洪水或某種你知道的，人們因為幹旱而挨餓，我們談論的是西方工業化國家的正常運轉，我們正在向他們提供資金，我的意思是，當我們自己國家有需要的人時，這太可惡了，Reem Ibrahim，這太可惡了，這絕對是可恥的，我們已經承擔了自第二次世界大戰以來最高的稅收負擔，我們正在世界各地花費巨額納稅人的錢在各種不同的項目上，這些項目確實流向了世界上比英國某些地區更富裕的地區，我認為這是這篇論文真正強調的一點，而且很有趣，顯然有激勵措施英國公務員和援助人員希望在基礎設施更好的地方工作，因此實際上存在這種激勵，很多援助人員和公務員
不想在世界上飽受戰爭蹂躪的地區工作，在這些地區，這些錢實際上可以發揮很大作用，他們希望在基礎設施更好的更安全的地方工作，因為最終他們的生活會更舒適，是的，但是

Julia Hartley-Brewer

多年來，我們還看到從這個援助預算中抽取的資金，當時它占 GDP 的 0.7%，這意味著現在你們減少了這部分資金，然後他們將其納入國際發展，納入他們的對外援助，納入外交部，但你知道，仍有巨額資金流出，很多資金下落不明，這些資金流向高度腐敗的國家，過去我們有過女孩禁令，你知道某種外國政府版本的辣妹組合，我們一直在花錢我們知道我們需要在緊急情況下照顧人們，讓你知道水ntraception
基本你知道疫苗接種我們應該專注於基本的東西如果一個國家不能做到這一點除此之外如果你知道如果你有自己的火箭項目我認為我們可以有把握地說你負擔得起你可以照顧好自己的人民

Reem Ibrahim
絕對現在你完全正確朱莉婭這真的是一個有趣的觀點我們並不是說你知道所有的外國援助都浪費了但關鍵是因為我們從一個任意的角度來看待它占GDP的一定百分比這意味著很多錢都流向了坦率地說不需要的項目所以我們有幾個例子我們稱之為論文我不得不離開我很抱歉我們沒有時間我沒有時間這些例子是值得的但同樣有幾個但在那篇論文中但同樣值得知道這隻是我們的稅收哦對不起我們沒有錢去修補痘坑，我們沒有錢去投資提高這個國家的癌症存活率或者婦產科，但是不不不，我們會處理考拉倫帕發生的事情，這真的是瘋了，我不知道這些白癡是誰，在過去的天知道多少年裏一直在政府任職
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basic you know vaccinations we should be concentrating on the basic stuff if a
country can't do that other than that if you you know if you've got your own rocket project I think we can safely say You can afford it you can afford to look after your own
people 

Reem Ibrahim
absolutely now you're absolutely right Julia and this is really the interesting point again we're not saying that you know all foreign aid absolutely goes to waste but the point is because we look at it from an arbitrary kind of approach a certain percentage of GDP it means that a lot of this money is going to projects that quite frankly don't need to be there so we've got a couple of examples and we call the paper I'mgoing to have to leave it I'm so sorry we are out of times I haven't got time Its worth it for the examples but again there's a few in that but in that paper but again it's worthwh knowing it's just it's the idea that our taxes oh sorry we haven't got money to fix pox holes we haven't got money to give some more investment in you know cancer survival rates or maternity units in this country but no no we'll deal with something going on in koala Lumpa it's it is genuinely insane I don't know who these idiots are who running on government over the last God knows how many years

“It’s OBSCENE When People In Our Country Are In Need” | UK Aid Spent On Cycle Lanes In Malaysia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99yG6THe10
2024年8月21日  LONDON
British taxpayers' money has been splashed on Chinese opera, cycle lanes in Mexico, and road schemes in Malaysia—while poor areas of the UK are left short.

More than £3 million in foreign aid has gone to affluent regions abroad, funding projects like an all-female Chinese opera in Shanghai, anti-congestion measures in Kuala Lumpur, and a cycle lane in Mexico City.

A report by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) revealed that aid money has funded 13 projects in eight regions richer than parts of Britain. The research compared these areas’ GDP per capita to that of Ards and North Down in Northern Ireland, the UK’s poorest region.

Julia Hartley-Brewer speaks with communications officer at the IEA, Reem Ibrahim.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
let's talk right now about Story look we talked about foreign AIDS many many times over the years uh but taxpayers have been funding development projects in parts of the world that are richer than some areas in the UK this is according to a new report from The Institute of economic Affairs I mean this includes places like China hostile Nations by the way vastly Rich Nations they got rocket programs and nuclear weapons and things but oh no absolutely we should absolutely be sending them some of our hard-earned money well let's talk about this with ree Ibrahim who's Communications officer at the Ia ree I mean these stats are absolutely How much money is going to these places extraordinary I mean tell us how much money is going to these places 

Reem Ibrahim
it's absolutely extraordinary so thank you having me on Julia this paper effectively looks at areas of the world that we are currently giving money to so tax pay money is going to these areas of the world for really quite obscure development projects and actually these areas of the world are much wealthier than some areas of the UK so we looked at various different areas of the UK and their GDP per capita so it's all based on GDP per capita and it actually found that there are many areas of the world in which we actually spend money that's actually much less um wealthy it's much wealthier than areas of the UK so for example we looked at areas like oos in China again
as you said China is a hostile state to the UK which has a GDP per capita of 27,500 which is more than 69 regions in the UK so tax pay money is going to areas of the world that is actually run by a hostile state to the UK and indeed
that is actually less more well off than 69 regions it's crazy isn't it you

Julia Hartley-Brewer
places like I mean Shanghai in China koala Loa in Malaysia I mean I've been to I've been to quala Luma I mean you know I'm sure there are some people in
need in quala Luma I'm rather of the
view that the Malaysian government
should take care of those people we're
not talking about sending Aid to some
War Tor part of the world where people
are victims of a civil war they've got
no one else to help nor there's a a
flood or a or or some sort of you know
people are starving as there result of a
drought we're talking about functioning
Western know Western industrialized
nations and we're sending money to them
this is I mean it's obscene when there
Why its obscene are people in our own country in need

Reem Ibrahim
it's obscene and it's absolutely scandalous when we've already got some of the highest tax burdens since the second world war we are spending huge amounts of tax pay money on various different projects across the world that indeed are going to areas of the world that are wealthier than some areas of the UK and this is really the point that the paper I think highlights and it's quite interesting there are obviously incentives for UK civil servants and Aid workers to want to work in better places that have better infrastructure so there's actually that incentive a lot of those Aid workers and civil servants
don't want to be working in as you said a war torn area of the world in which some of this money could actually go really quite far they want to be working in safer places with better infrastructure because ultimately they live a more comfortable life yeah but 

Julia Hartley-Brewer

we've also seen money over the years from from this this Aid budget when it was 0.7% of GDP mean that that's now mean you people's got reduced that and then they Incorporated in the you know International Development into their foreign aid into the for foreign office as well but you know but there's still huge sums of money going and a lot of this stuff it's unaccounted for it's in countries that are highly corrupt and in the past we've had you know girl banss you know the some sort of foreign some government's version of a of the Spice Girls and we've been spending money on that sort of nonsense we know we need to be looking after people in emergencies getting you know water co

“It’s OBSCENE When People In Our Country Are In Need” | UK Aid Spent On Cycle Lanes In Malaysia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99yG6THe10
2024年8月21日  LONDON
British taxpayers' money has been splashed on Chinese opera, cycle lanes in Mexico, and road schemes in Malaysia—while poor areas of the UK are left short.

More than £3 million in foreign aid has gone to affluent regions abroad, funding projects like an all-female Chinese opera in Shanghai, anti-congestion measures in Kuala Lumpur, and a cycle lane in Mexico City.

A report by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) revealed that aid money has funded 13 projects in eight regions richer than parts of Britain. The research compared these areas’ GDP per capita to that of Ards and North Down in Northern Ireland, the UK’s poorest region.

Julia Hartley-Brewer speaks with communications officer at the IEA, Reem Ibrahim.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
let's talk right now about Story look we talked about foreign AIDS many many times over the years uh but taxpayers have been funding development projects in parts of the world that are richer than some areas in the UK this is according to a new report from The Institute of economic Affairs I mean this includes places like China hostile Nations by the way vastly Rich Nations they got rocket programs and nuclear weapons and things but oh no absolutely we should absolutely be sending them some of our hard-earned money well let's talk about this with ree Ibrahim who's Communications officer at the Ia ree I
mean these stats are absolutely How much money is going to these places extraordinary I mean tell us how much money is going to these places 

Reem Ibrahim
it's absolutely extraordinary so thank you having me on Julia this paper effectively looks at areas of the world that we are currently giving money to so tax pay money is going to these areas of the world for really quite obscure development projects and actually these areas of the world are much wealthier than some areas of the UK so we looked at various different areas of the UK and their GDP per capita so it's all based
on GDP per capita and it actually found that there are many areas of the world in which we actually spend money that's actually much less um wealthy it's much wealthier
than areas of the UK so for example we looked at areas like oos in China again
as you said China is a hostile state to the UK which has a GDP per capita of
27,500 which is more than 69 regions in the UK so tax pay money is going to
areas of the world that is actually run by a hostile state to the UK and indeed
that is actually less more well off than 69 regions it's crazy isn't it you

Julia Hartley-Brewer
places like I mean Shanghai in China koala Loa in Malaysia I mean I've been
to I've been to quala Luma I mean you
know I'm sure there are some people in
need in quala Luma I'm rather of the
view that the Malaysian government
should take care of those people we're
not talking about sending Aid to some
War Tor part of the world where people
are victims of a civil war they've got
no one else to help nor there's a a
flood or a or or some sort of you know
people are starving as there result of a
drought we're talking about functioning
Western know Western industrialized
nations and we're sending money to them
this is I mean it's obscene when there
Why its obscene are people in our own country in need

Reem Ibrahim
it's obscene and it's absolutely scandalous when we've already got some
of the highest tax burdens since the second world war we are spending huge
amounts of tax pay money on various different projects across the world that
indeed are going to areas of the world that are wealthier than some areas of
the UK and this is really the point that the paper I think highlights and it's
quite interesting there are obviously incentives for UK civil servants and Aid
workers to want to work in better places that have better infrastructure so
there's actually that incentive a lot of those Aid workers and civil servants
don't want to be working in as you said a war torn area of the world in which
some of this money could actually go really quite far they want to be working
in safer places with better infrastructure because ultimately they live a more comfortable life yeah but 

Julia Hartley-Brewer

we've also seen money over the years from from this this Aid budget when it
was 0.7% of GDP mean that that's now mean you people's got reduced that and
then they Incorporated in the you know International Development into their
foreign aid into the for foreign office as well but you know but there's still
huge sums of money going and a lot of this stuff it's unaccounted for it's in
countries that are highly corrupt and in the past we've had you know girl banss
you know the some sort of foreign some government's version of a of the Spice
Girls and we've been spending money on that sort of nonsense we know we need to
be looking after people in emergencies getting you know water contraception
basic you know vaccinations we should be concentrating on the basic stuff if a
country can't do that other than that if you you know if you've got your own rocket project I think we can safely say You can afford it you can afford to look after your own
people 

Reem Ibrahim
absolutely now you're absolutely right Julia and this is really the interesting point again we're not saying that you know all foreign aid absolutely goes to waste but the point is because we look at it from an arbitrary kind of
approach a certain percentage of GDP it means that a lot of this money is going
to projects that quite frankly don't need to be there so we've got a couple
of examples and we call the paper I'mgoing to have to leave it I'm so sorry
we are out of times I haven't got time Its worth it for the examples but again there's a few in that but in that paper but again it's worthwh knowing it's just it's the idea that our taxes oh sorry we haven't got money to fix pox holes we haven't got money to give some more investment in you know cancer survival rates or maternity units in this country but no no we'll deal with something going on in koala Lumpa it's it is genuinely insane I don't know who these idiots are who running on government over the last God knows how many years