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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm David Harper and on this edition we'll hear from Douglas Alexander the UK Trade Secretary in just a moment on an effort to improve trading ties with developing countries and whether it can really balance cuts to aid spending from many richer nations.
We'll also be getting reaction from an expert in economic transformation in Africa and after seeing incidents where cyber attacks and power cuts have restricted our access to electronic payments,
should we be less keen to reduce our use of physical cash?
We've been looking at some initiatives to ensure we can do just that.
But first, in the last 12 months,
we've heard governments in the developed world drastically cut overseas aid budgets.
USAID has been abolished since Donald Trump returned to the White House,
with a dramatic effect on the funding of overseas projects.
And in February,
the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Britain will reduce its aid spending from 0.5% of gross national income to 0.3% in 2027,