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Post by geriatrix on Mar 31, 2016 12:04:06 GMT
Pro: This assistance can make a valuable contribution to improve the lives of many people, decrease inequality and encourage justice. Foreign assistance enhances healthcare, infrastructure and as education provision standards, as a result developing economic foundation as well as social development. Foreign assistance is also an ideal way of creating a strong bond with other nations, gain political determination for world concern and curb terrorism.
Con: Foreign aid can lead a nation to depend on another nation. A country frequently that frequently lives on this assistance uses it as a reason to prevent serious reforms of the structure. For helping the country, assistance seems difficult when the donor state can't afford to pay the debts, both private and public. In most cases, the assistance is not appropriate, coming from the giver state's insight of an issue instead of actual issues. Moreover, foreign assistance can keep funding a government that may be the reason of the issues to start with.
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Post by Bestem♥r on Mar 31, 2016 19:30:46 GMT
Another con: sometimes the 'aid' consists of arms & then the arms makers get to write off the 'donations' on their taxes.
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Post by geriatrix on Mar 31, 2016 19:54:59 GMT
Good point, Bestem♥r! I have worked in developing countries and also read a lot about foreing aid. It turns out that the last con listed in my OP is more relevant than previously thought, as corrupt officials have frequently embezzled aid funds to enrich themselves instead of giving them to the suffering population. There have been made far too few demands at the receiving end of this conveyor belt. As a result, many governments have become more careful with their handouts, to the point where acute aid has been replaced by long-term investments and other financial stumulation projects. I remember two incidents in Africa: In Malawi, an aid organisation received tonnes of powdered milk, but had no potable water to mix it with. In Nigeria, a shipload of cement had to be sunk, because the humid air had petrified it in the cargo holds. Well-meant, but little thought-through projects that sound ridiculous in hindsight.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 20:10:25 GMT
Exactly, I wonder exactly where these funds end up. So much corruption.
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Post by geriatrix on Mar 31, 2016 20:18:10 GMT
Re: Arms...
The Norwegian government has a policy to sell military equipment only within NATO and to so-called "allied nations". But unscrupulous middlemen forward the sales of items like outdated minesweepers and armoured vehicles to warlords in doubtful countries and to avoid more such unfortunate incidents, some of our politicians have tried to remove certain "friends" like Turkey and Israel from the list.
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