India will shed few tears over the end of UK aid
November 09, 2012  19:01
For India, fairer trade agreements and an end to patronising soft power are more important than dribbles of aid from Britain. 

Not too many tears may be shed in India over the announcement that Justine Greening, the UK's development secretary, has announced the end of aid to India in 2015, as the question is increasingly being asked within India: should the country continue to take such aid?

A Guardian poll had asked readers to vote on this, offering various choices (yes/no/maybe/partly) on the basis of different approaches. Yet the problem is that the reasons provided for any of these options are partly true, but also partly off-track.

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