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Short term in emergency situations aid is something we should supply. Long term aid destroys local economies, local farmers can't compete with free. Simple as that.
As cruel as this sounds unless it's an emergency situation like a natural disaster all aid to these countries has to be stopped becsue you're just creating a worse situation down the road. Someone asked me what could be worse than 10 million hungry people? The answer is 20 million hungry people. These people need to be able to support themselves, the more aid we give the bigger the long term implications will be.
Guess what large Asian country started to invest instead of throwing money to dictators.
Like your cited articles you are way behind the news curb since China has had an active African policy since the wars of independence including support for Robert Mugabe's ZImbabwe African National Union that dates back to 1980. So you see, China has never had the slightest qualm about throwing money at dictators.
As for China's investment vs foreign aid, while there is no doubt that China has made a significant capital investment in the continent China's foreign aid has also grown by leaps and bounds and has been estimated to exceed $75 billion over the last 10 years. The vast majority having gone to health, "government", and education.
Like you cited article you are way behind the news curb since China has had an active African policy since the wars of independence including support for Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union that dates back to 1980. I also hasten to point out that along with capital investment China's foreign aid to the continent as been estimated at being over $75 billion over the last 10 years the vast majority when to health, government, and education.
Go as some African people from different countries and ask them how foreign aid has helped their people. Then ask them how how investments and oil has helped their people.
"Donating clothing is a sensitive topic in Africa because many countries' textile industries collapsed under the weight of secondhand-clothing imports that were introduced in the 1970s and '80s. "First you have destroyed these villages' ability to be industrious and produce cotton products, and then you're saying, 'Can I give you a T-shirt?' and celebrating about it?" says James Shikwati, director of the Nairobi-based Inter Region Economic Network, a think tank. "It's really like offering poison coated with sugar."
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