What is foreign Aid

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Foreign Aid.

• Done by Birman Kalulu

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What is foreign Aid

• It is the assistance given to another state from
  another state as a way of assisting them either
  through financial means or through food, clothing
  and many other means of assistance to reduce
  their burden or crisis being faced.
• Foreign aid may come as a means through
  humanitarian assistance. A practical example is
  the assistance which was given to the Malaysian
  people when they experienced severe floods caused
  by the tsunamis. Food, clothing and medical
  supplies were sent to Malaysia to help out with
  those hit the most.
• Foreign aid may also come as means of assisting
  a state who may not have enough resources to
  accomplish a particular task at hand through
  means of monetary assistance. Zambia was assisted
  with funds to accomplish road projects and
  building of infrastructure.

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Advantages of Foreign Aid

• Foreign aid tends to save life of those affected.
  For example when Haiti was hit by a natural
  disaster, the government of Haiti was given
  foreign aid as means of rebuilding affected parts
  of the country.
• Foreign aid helps in rebuilding livelihoods of
  affected people through providing them with
  foods, some form of income to help in rebuilding
  their own lives and many others.
• Foreign aid is important in supporting
  agriculture projects such as animal husbandry,
  improved pest control methods that are effective.
  For example in the case of Zambia were army worms
  infested most maize crops in the country, foreign
  aid become useful in combating the infestation.
• Foreign aid aids in providing medicines. A
  country may have high shortage of medicines in
  their inventories, so foreign aid tends to fill
  up the gaps so that the smooth running of the
  health facilities is maintained or enhanced.

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• Foreign aid helps in encouraging development of a
  nation. When foreign aid is given to a particular
  nation developmental projects begin to be
  implemented such as building of road networks to
  easy the provisions of goods and services to the
  intended market and also the building of schools
  such as secondary schools in Northern Province to
  decongest the few available schools and allow
  student teacher ratio to be reduced and also to
  limit the distance that pupils cover to reach the
  nearest school which tends to be many kilometer
  away and allow to take fewer distance since the
  school has been brought closer to the pupil in
  need of the service.
• Support in tapping of natural resources. Foreign
  aid helps to assist those nations who are unable
  to tap into their natural resources through
  providing them with equipment's necessary to do
  the task at hand and giving them experts who are
  able to execute the job effectively to the
  satisfaction of management and through the job
  creation which leads to development of a nation.

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• Foreign aid helps in improving sanitation of the
  nation or community affected. Most developing
  nations are poor in terms of sanitation. So when
  foreign aid is given to them, they improve their
  drinking water, drainage systems are created if
  they were not there and if they were not there
  and if they were there, they are maintained or
  improved to the standard required. Through this
  livelihoods and also the standard of living.

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Disadvantages of Foreign Aid.

• Foreign aid can lead to corruption becoming a
  risk factor. Politicians who receive aid on
  behalf of the nation tends to divert the funds
  for their personal gain and not for the intended
  purpose or allocation.
• Foreign aid may lead to political and economical
  pressure. Donors may tend to hip up pressure on
  the recipient for favors in terms of having
  certain privileges like removal of tax from
  certain commodities so that they can make profit.
• Foreign aid tends to benefit foreign based
  enterprise with some hidden agenda. The aid given
  to a nation usually has some hidden clause in
  them so as their firms can benefit more than the
  local firms.

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• Foreign aid tends to overlook small scale
  farmers. Large scale famers who have large
  agricultural projects tend to be considered as
  projects worth undertaking leaving out small
  scale famers projects seen as a waste of
  resources.
• Foreign aid tends to benefit wealthy
  cooperation's and wealthy employers. When aid is
  given to a nation usually big firms and well to
  do employers tend to benefit from the aid leaving
  out small individuals and farmers.

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