Rohingya children participate in a DFID-funded education programme in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. UNHCR/Antoine Tardy
For many years, the computers of staff at the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) bore a desktop background stating that their work, managing and disbursing the country's overseas aid, is "a moral obligation in the national interest".
"Enlightened self-interest" is the preferred term amongst British politicians seeking to justify to their constituents the country's policy of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on foreign aid.
