Foreign Aid
These four countries provide aid in the form of funding of education, energy, social justice, and health.
Who are Ireland, China, Japan, and Britain?
The former president of Ghana launched its "Ghana Beyond Aid Act" in 2017. By 2024, instead of self sufficiency, Ghana got bailed out by this international institution for the 17th time.
Who is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
On July 1st, the Trump Administration effectively dissolved this organization dedicated to foreign development.
What is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)?
Is oral rehydration solution useful?
Yes.
These four countries notably cut development spending (aid) with domestic support.
In 2023, Western nations spent this amount on African aid.
What is $60 billion?
This is the greatest failure of USAID (according to the article)
What is, the inability to communicate to the American people how many people were being helped with USAID?
Poor people are more sensitive to bed net price or their income?
Bad net price
Another challenge that Malawi and other developing countries face, is when their best educated citizens return home they start these instead of a business or a job in the private sector.
What are Charities?
The Trump Administration said it will cut __% of USAID projects, ending some ____ thousand projects.
What is 90%;10,000?
In 2020-2023, the U.S. contributed over 70% of the aid for the Horn of Africa's drought that helped this many million people.
What is 40 million?
What's the intuition explanation of the health trap?
parents got illness > less income/poor > child sick > no education > poor for next generation
In the early 2000s, development aid shifted from policy to building human capital up through focusing on these two major institutions.
What is education and health care?
It is estimated that by 2030, __ million more Africans will fall below the World Banks extreme poverty line if Aid is continued to cut.
What is 20 million?
To combat the drought response, the U.S. spent over $2 billion. This means, it was cost the average American household this amount per year.
What is $6?
Why poor people don't trust public health service? Are private doctors better?
Government services are ineffective. Private doctors were not well educated, often underdiagnosed or over meditate.
Another challenge of the effectiveness of foreign aid (Do not bite the hand that feeds you i.e. Kenya)
Who are countries that want aid with "no strings attached" (no conditions of aid sent).
At the end of the article, an think-tank in Ghana argues that the continent as a whole needs to shift its focus to integrating markets and moving beyond their traditional market of exporting ______.
What are raw materials?
A study by the Imperial College of London estimates that this amount of people would have died without USAID.
Why do they demand so much for bad care but indifference toward effective prevention?
Lack of healthcare knowledge, immutation has no place in traditional belief system, focus on today not future