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Development Aid Funds Documentaries and Activism Training, Drawing Sharp Criticism from Professor
🇩🇰 Denmark /Economy & Trade

Development Aid Funds Documentaries and Activism Training, Drawing Sharp Criticism from Professor

From Berlingske · () Danish

Translated from Danish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • A professor emeritus of economics criticized the use of development aid for public information projects, documentaries, norm-critical education and youth activism training.
  • He said the spending helps justify billions in aid to Danish taxpayers despite its questionable effect, while the Socialist People’s Party rejected the criticism.

A professor emeritus of economics has accused the state of using development aid to promote its own policies, targeting funding for documentaries, norm-critical education and training young people in activism.

He argued that when the state spends millions of development kroner on public information, the purpose is to justify the use of billions of kroner to Danish taxpayers, even though the overall effect is questionable.

The state’s internal advertising agency

— Professor emeritus of economicsHis description of the development funding pool criticized in the article.

The professor described the criticized funding pool as “the state’s internal advertising agency.” The Socialist People’s Party, known as SF, rejected the criticism as “unserious.”

Unserious

— Socialist People’s PartyThe party’s response to the professor’s criticism.
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