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Recommended: Advantages and disadvantages of foreign aid

There are million of starving people and victims from wars and their corruption local governments

around the world. Foreign aid might gives them a better opportunities of surviving their lives. The

good side of foreign aid is that it saves a lot of people in undeveloped countries and especially gives

them a chance to survive. While someone agrees with foreign aid, some aren't. It is just a window

dressing way to fix the problems. However Foreign aid can help a lot of developing and

undeveloped countries and the U.S. should not cut the foreign aid.

At first foreign aid was made to help the U.S. And European government during the world

war 2 and now to help undeveloped countries. There are many good examples of foreign aid

agencies such as The Inter-American Foundation, or IAF, an independent agency of the U.S.

government that funds development projects. Australian Agency for International Development or

AusAID providing Australia's oversea aid program. EuropeAid Development and Cooperation or

E.U.AID. However there are foreign aid agencies that don't really help developing countries

because they just help them in the short term, this short term means they just help them in providing

foods like sugars,rice,oil(they just give them foods not teaching them how to grow their food or

make it themselves) without giving them works,jobs or even worse they'll interference those small

countries and take over everything. It is regarded as being wasted and corrupted.

Foreign aid is now growing rapidly. If foreign aid is well managed it will gives poor people

benefits. There are numerous types of aids, humanitarian emergency aid, food aid, military

assistance, etc. It helps poor developing nations to get out of poverty. Helping them improve their

economic crisis or at least makes a better situation. Poor people will

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