New director to sharpen IFU’s aid profile

News June 30, 2006

By appointing aid veteran Finn Jønck as the new Managing Director of the Danish aid-financed investment funds, IFU and IØ, the Danish government has sent a clear signal that IFU is in the business of development. Promoting Danish companies’ activities abroad is a means of creating development and reducing poverty, not the overriding goal.

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