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What is Foreign Aid?

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What is Foreign Aid?

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In the aid industry, there are well meaning and well intentioned motives that drive some of the operatives. History however, points at the fact that the Western incursions into Africa were also clothed in good intentions, to civilize and help preserve natives. Having given the genuinely well intentioned individuals latitude of respect; let me go forth and define Foreign Aid as it is. Foreign Aid is a bribe given to poor countries by rich nations to enable the latter access resources, and markets cheaply. It is also a bribe to poor nations to prevent the migration of poor people to rich nations. It is a bribe to poor nations meant to address rich nations interests. We all know what bribes (aid) do to our police force (governments), the police get fatter but the crime and traffic offense related highway accident rates go up (under development of people). To the robber who bribes a policeman to ensure he/she is not caught bribery is a good thing that promotes the looting industry! BUT if

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This deceptively simple question has not been adequately addressed because aid scholars have tended to emphasize practitioners’ concerns and thus have favoured the conceptualization of foreign aid in terms of security or development policy objectives. This article attempts to reconceptualize foreign aid in a larger systemic context of international relations, focusing first on the nature and conditions of the key social relation involved in foreign aid practice and then on specifying its functions and effects. It argues that what most clearly defines foreign aid is the symbolic power politics between donor and recipient. Aid practice transforms material dominance and subordination into gestures of generosity and gratitude. This symbolic transformation, in turn, euphemizes the material hierarchy underlying the donor-recipient relation. In this process, recipients become complicit in the existing order that enables donors to give in the first place.

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Page 9-10: “Foreign aid is often used to refer to a wide variety of resource transfers. Some think of any transfer of public funds abroad – including military expenditures or trade financing — as foreign aid. Others think of it only as humanitarian relief for victims of disasters. In fact, foreign aid has an official meaning. According to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), foreign aid (or Official Development Assistance) is the transfer abroad of public resources on concessional terms (with at least a 25 percent grant element), a significant objective of which is to bring about an improvement in economic, political, or social conditions in developing countries. This definition — expanded to apply to concessional resource transfers, one objective of which is to improve economic, social, and political conditions in any foreign country — is the one we shall use for the purposes of this study. It does not inclu

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