Monday, October 10, 2011
"The problem with foreign aid"
And rest assured, it IS a problem.
It just never seems to get to those it is intended to help...
It just never seems to get to those it is intended to help...
Peter Worthington recently wrote about it in the Toronto Sun:
"In too many cases, especially in Africa, the effect of foreign aid (especially government-to-government) has been to sustain and prop up dictatorships. Foreign aid enables dictators to depend on foreign aid to feed the people, while diverting domestic money to buying weapons and maintaining an army that enhances the dictatorship.
And that doesn’t take into account how much foreign aid money winds up in Swiss bank accounts."
