No aid policy: How India changed from taker to donor

In 2013 India made it clear to both the US and Japan, which offered $200,000 towards Uttarakhand relief, that it will not accept the aid and that any funding must be given to foundations. The policy is entrenched in India’s increasing attempts to showcase its economic power to the world.

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