Disadvantages Of Giving Aid To Poor Countries

Advantages and Disadvantages of Giving International Aid to Poor Countries
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” (Kennedy). Aid has long been one way of showing sympathy of rich countries to poor countries. Every year many of under-developed or third world countries receive billions of dollars as aid from rich countries, which is a big opportunity for developing countries to fasten their development program. Because aids have both advantages and disadvantages, it has remained a controversial issue for international community whether to give aid for developing countries or not. Some believe that development assistance has many negative consequences. For instance, the aid will lead poor countries to economic dependency, political pressure of donors and administrative corruption. Despite some disadvantages of aid, the advantages are enormous and developed countries should provide poor nations with aid in order to promote their economic growth, strengthen their diplomatic relations and help them to gain stability.
First of all, opponents of giving aid may claim that the development assistance in almost most of cases lead to an economic dependency of poor countries. They say that when poor countries are at the mercy of developed countries, the rich nations can use their dependency and start imposing their ideas and ideologies on them. Although such a claim may be true to some extent, the censuses showed that development