Foreign Aid undercuts the people living there who otherwise could make a living supplying the things the aid does.
A perfect example is food aid.....it makes it impossible for local farmers to make a living...who can compete with free food? So, you have no farmers, and the problem only perpetuates itself.
“Foreign Aid undercuts the people living there who otherwise could make a living supplying the things the aid does.”
Bingo! You are absolutely correct!
I just finished a book about our involvement in Iraq, and that’s what really struck me about there too. How could we expect their society to recover when we were handing them anything and everything we could imagine for free?
And over such a length of time!
The local African farmers main problems are with incompetent & corrupt governments and insecurity due to tribal conflict.
Same problem we have here. Ask a Korean business man in South Central LA, or someone in Chicago or NYC hoping to by affordable items at a Walmart.