Why does the United States continue to throw billions and billions of dollars at third world countries?
Despite that little to no progress has been made in these countries? We thrown have money at dozens of poor countries in Latin America,Asia,and the Middle East,and they're still poor. The Clinton administration admitted that "Despite decades of foreign aid,most of Latin AMerica,Africa,and Asia are economically worse off than they were 20 years ago." Take for example,Zambia.When Zambia became independent in 1964,its people's income per capita was $540(in 2001 dollars).By 2000,they were making only $300,despite SIX BILLION in foreign aid from 1980 to 1996. Africa is still poor,despite that Africa has received the financial equivalent of FIVE Marshall Plans since the 1950s. It doesn't matter how much money we give the Third World...The only people who can help Africa and Asia,are the Africans and Asians themselves.
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1 :
because we are the USA! we give moneys to countries that hate us!
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cose ..you cant go to church...pull "god bless you"...all the time...if people dieing out of hunger despite..the r helping them self or not..
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Africa has been stagnant but is now actually booming. Nigeria is growing at 10% a year and tanzania at 6% for a start... There have been many issues holding back development in the last few decades. Corruption, poor governance, aid being used to the wrong ends. happily though, some of the longest running wars have come to an end, the continent is increasingly democratic, many countries are making use of their natural resources and the innovation of microcredit is fuelling growth. While still poor, Africa is no longer a basket case... As for Latin America, it has only just overcome the twin disasters of huge government debt and appalingly implemented free market economics in the 1980s and is mostly doing fine now. Asia has been booming, not just china and India, but also Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, even Bangladesh is growing
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maybe because when US give money , the third world countries feel that they need to return some favors and become like US's friend for future trade or war . Like investing something....
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Foreign aid isn't given to the people of the foreign country. It is given to the government and corporations. Corruptions flourishes. People are people. Many of them being quite corrupt. Would you turn down the opportunity to make millions for yourself, your friends and your family. Greed lives.
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The question you need to ask yourself is do you really believe that the money gets to those countries or just to the criminal politicians and their supporters here and there.
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I believe that the original idea was to help stop the spread of Soviet communism, that if we were to give them aid, then the Soviets couldn't gain a foothold in those regions in the world. The Soviet Union has been dead for nearly 20 years, but we still do it, all that aid should have produced something by now. All it did was enrich the political elite in those nations. The Philippines is a good example of that. We spent a lot of money on aid to his country and, Ferdinand Marcos just pocketed the money and became the dictator.
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I dunno. Buying off two bit diktaters just seems stupid to me.
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your point of view is very interesting, the poor countries have things in common, bad admonistration, bad legal systems and a lack of prioritization in the development programs But the problem why international aid, including american is the focus on those programs, by an example in Central America the US Aid program help a lot in anti demographic explosion programs, such as giving away condoms, and making free surgeries to those women that have a lot of children Therefore the real problem in these countries is not fighted I read recently in a brief, that if you make that girls in Latinamerica countries get to 6th grade, the non planned pregnancy decreases by 900%, that menas that the investment of those billions that you say "we throw" is bad focused the reason why the USA expend all this money is because specially Latinamerica Countries are the second market in importance to the american exports, and stremghtening the middle class in this countries mean less illegal alliens and more US exports The way to become from low class to middle class in Latinamerica is as easy as getting a formal job and that mean education, specially private because the public is fairly poor and the abandon rate is something like 70% so when this money start to become smart distributed it would fight the real causes of poverty i hope you find good my answer and if you like it, please choose it a the best answer, thanks in advance :-)
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stupid Progressive elite bastards that love to spend your $$$$.
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It's the same in the UK. We're massively in debt and there's people here who need support money (ie jobless, homeless, low income families, etc...). The government is saying we're all in this together and cuts have to be made because we can't afford anything. All the while giving £billions to foreign countries and the EU. Yes the foreign aid is for a good cause but the government should look after our own people and sort out our country before giving our money to other countries. And here's the kicker. Earlier this year I read that foreign countries have said Britain don't give enough. So not only are they taking our money they are ungrateful.
