At the start of the month (May 2018), Winston Peters announced the government’s plan for the biggest increase in aid for over a decade. An extra $714 million over four years will flow into New Zealand’s share of aid, increasing our GNI aid percentage from 0.21% to 0.28%. Peters has also hinted at additional increases over the next couple of years, involving a goal of contributing 0.35% of our GNI to aid by 2024. This is a governmental response to New Zealand’s ‘underfunding’ over the past...