Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) is beginning to do more harm than good, argues George Monbiot in a column for The Guardian UK, and is opening up developing country markets to the rampages of big capital. In Zambia, he writes, DfID is spending just £700,000 on improving nutrition, but £56m on privatising the copper mines. In Ghana, the department made its aid payments for upgrading the water system conditional on partial privatisation. "Foreign aid from Britain now means giving to the rich the resources that keep the poor alive," he argues.