The Basics
This is the term for financial or material assistance given from one country to another.
What is foreign aid?
This country is consistently the largest donor of foreign aid in absolute terms.
What is the United States of America?
This major health-focused aid organization eradicated smallpox and fights polio worldwide.
What is the World Health Organization or WHO?
This term describes when aid money is siphoned off through dishonest means.
What is corruption?
This U.S. president established USAID in 1961.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The United States agency primarily responsible for administering foreign aid.
What is USAID?
The continent that receives the most foreign aid globally
What is Africa?
The “Red” organization with branches in nearly every country, known for disaster response.
What is the Red Cross or Red Crescent?
Some believe foreign aid is used more to advance this than humanitarian goals.
What is political or strategic interest?
U.S. foreign aid program launched after WWII to help rebuild Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Foreign Aid is categorized into these three types
What is humanitarian/emergency, systemic, and charity-based aid?
This Middle Eastern country gives large amounts of aid, especially to Islamic countries.
What is Saudi Arabia?
This NGO is known for its work in global health and disease prevention.
What is Doctors Without Borders or MSF?
Critics argue this type of aid can increase dependency rather than promote self-sufficiency.
What is long-term development aid?
Famous economist who advocated for aid-led solutions to poverty in “The End of Poverty.”
Who is Jeffrey Sachs???
This kind of aid is given by private citizens or organizations, not governments.
What is private aid or charitable aid?
This Scandinavian country consistently ranks in the top five for percentage of GNI given as aid.
What is Sweden?
An international financial institution that gives technical and financial support to poor countries, especially for infrastructure.
What is the World Bank?
Aid can unintentionally support this, by freeing up governments to spend less on citizens.
What is authoritarianism?
This 2005 initiative by the G8 aimed to forgive the debt of the world’s poorest countries.
What is the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative?
This acronym is often used to describe government-to-government aid.
What is ODA, Official Development Assistance?
Country that has shifted from being an aid recipient to a donor in recent decades. DAILY DOUBLE
What is South Korea?
The UN’s global development network focused on poverty reduction and democratic governance.
What is the UNDP, United Nations Development Programme?
Some argue foreign aid distorts this natural economic mechanism in developing countries.
What are market incentives?
This U2 frontman became a major activist for foreign aid and debt relief. Hint: His name is similar to a word used for "free" work
Who is Bono?