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    Money Matters: Where does Australia spend its aid money?

    In this week's edition: We take a look at Australian aid’s top contractors. Also, we dig into the U.K. Labour Party activists take on the country's foreign aid, more restructuring at OSF, and Cindy McCain's vow at WFP.

    By Omar Mohammed // 24 July 2023

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    Being a big player in the current FIFA Women’s World Cup — which it co-hosts — isn’t the only thing that Australia is known for in the global stage.

    The Oceanian nation is also one of the largest foreign aid donors in the world.

    We crunched the numbers to reveal the focus of the country’s contract spending and who tends to receive it.

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      Omar Mohammed is a Foreign Aid Business Reporter based in New York. Prior to joining Devex, he was a Knight-Bagehot fellow in business and economics reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has nearly a decade of experience as a journalist and he previously covered companies and the economies of East Africa for Reuters, Bloomberg, and Quartz.

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