The International Development Implications of Brexit

Both the European Union and the United Kingdom are important players in international development, in fact the EU is the single largest foreign aid provider; and the United Kingdom's own aid programs, run by the Department for International Development, or DfID, are considered some of the more innovative agencies in this space.Also, the UK is one of just a few countries to actually have met a commitment to spend 0.7% of its gross national income on global development.

So, it would seem the fallout from Brexit could potentially be pretty profound. To go over these big issues, I caught up with Mikaela Gavas of Overseas Development Institute, which is a highly respected UK-based think tank that focuses on global development issues. And Mikaela, in particular, works on Pan-European global development policies so she is able to offer a really interesting insight into these questions. Also, toward the end of the interview, Mikaela expresses some consternation that as a British expert on EU p…