Stability: Developing states to get cash
DEVELOPING nations ravaged by war and internal conflicts will receive a greater proportion of Britain's foreign aid in an attempt to prevent the nation's armed forces being drawn into future battles.
David Cameron said that by 2015, almost a third of Britain's overseas development budget – which has been protected from other departments' vast cut-backs – will be focused on "fragile and conflict-affected states" in an effort to build more stable governments in potential danger zones.
The defence review has concluded that many of the threats Britain now faces come from unstable nations such as Somalia and Yemen, and that helping to bolster government and aid projects in such areas would help to address such issues at "source" – potentially reducing the need for military interventions.