Who needs who?
True or False: Aid is neutral.
This term describes influencing other countries through attraction or persuasion rather than force.
What is soft power?
This happens when a country must rely on outside support.
What is dependency?
True or False: All aid is purely charitable.
What is false?
This country’s solar energy benefits Europe more than local people.
What is Morocco?
Type of aid as money, resources, or support given from one country to another.
Soft power influences others through ______, not force.
What is persuasion?
Loans countries cannot pay back creating long-term control.
What is debt?
True or False: Need is defined by the community receiving aid.
What is false?
"The W____ B____ has not f***ed Nepal yet like it's f***ing Morocco." - Yanik
What is World Bank?
Type of aid supporting communities locally.
What is mutual aid?
True or False: Aid can be used to gain political influence.
What is true?
A system that intentionally creates or maintains inequality designs ______.
What is poverty?
Cheap imported food weakens local ______.
What is agriculture?
Other answers: farmers, food sovereignty
This country has a financial transaction with the US where a portion of their foreign debt was reduced in exchange for that country's commitment to agreed-upon conservation and sustainable development projects within their country.
What is Ecuador? (Hint: debt for nature)
Aid reinforces patterns of in-_______ created under colonialism.
What is inequality?
Aid can come with ______ attached.
What is conditions?
What kind of colonialism is climate-focused aid that harms marginalized communities.
What is "green" colonialism?
Negative stereotype of Western volunteers.
What is white saviors?
What country is centralized under a state-owned company in charge of their water and energy which is dependent on the state and international funding like the World Bank/EU.
What is Morocco?
Resis-______ and redis-______ are local patterns of operation.
What is resistance and resdistribution?
Political criteria for determining "deservingness" shaped by r-____, geo-_____, and eco-_____ interests
What is race, geography, and economic?
This president introduced “underdevelopment” as part of public language in his 1949 inaugural speech along with the proposal that the developed come to the aid of the underdeveloped.
Who is Truman?
The concept countries use to shape the narrative of who is “in need,” who is “deserving,” and “necessary” interventions.
What is storytelling?
In Nepal, this animal that kills thousands of people per year is being overlooked due to hierarchy of visibility.
What is snakes?