Nick Shaxson ■ UK healthcare and foreign aid: the links

UK healthcare and foreign aid: the links

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4 March 2014

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From the UK-based Centre for Health and the Public Interest:

“Those investigating the persistence of poverty in developing countries and those struggling to sustain high quality health care in the UK have more in common than we think.”

Why? Well, read on.

The author

Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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