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22/10/2015 06:06 GMT

22/10/2015 06:06 GMT: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

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More Or Less hears this year’s Nobel prize winning economist’s concerns over foreign aid

More Or Less hears a Nobel prize winning economist’s views on foreign aid, BBC Trending reports on scientists’ online piracy and the Why Factor asks what drives sports fans.

In More Or Less, Tim Harford interviews Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Angus Deaton about his views on foreign aid and how far he thinks our wealth affects our happiness.

BBC Trending describes how scientists are swapping academic papers in secret - most of the time illegally – using a Twitter hashtag ‘#ICanHazPDF’. We ask the scientist who came up with the idea why thousands of people are using it, and how they justify their actions.
And, this week Salman Rushdie dubbed the internet trolls who back the Indian Prime Minister ‘Modi Toadies’. But who are they and are they a sign of growing intolerance in India? 

And in the Why Factor, Mike Williams asks why hundreds of millions of people support sports team, even if they are playing on the other side of the world.

(Photo: Angus Deaton listens to a question after winning the Nobel Prize for Economics. Credit: Getty Images)

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