Revolution, a tradition as old as time. Countries such as Haiti and America used the tactic of revolution to gain independence from their European overlords. The American Revolution occurred between 1775-1781 against England. As this revolution was ending, another one was started a little farther south; Haiti revolted against France from 1791 to 1803. These two revolutions draw many similarities such as the fact that they were both revolting against European powers but also draw differences because the Haitian revolutions’ driving force was their lower class and the American Revolution spurred by the upper class.
From the very beginning, however, aid was not a purely altruistic endeavour as the United States of America (US) needed a strong Europe to continue to purchase its exports and therefore keep the US economy going (Firth 2011: 286). As a result of the aid, Europe flourished, and so did the US economy. Foreign aid today continues to primarily be political and promotes the interests of the country
Haiti; country W. Indies on W Hispaniola; a republic, the factual definition of Haiti, but if someone were to ask me my definition of Haiti, I would say Home. Five years ago I fell in love. I was a fourteen-year-old going on my first mission trip ever, but little did I know I would return five times before I turned eighteen. The second we landed in Haiti I knew that it was different. People who had been there before told me how poor the country is, but I just brushed it off and thought,
Synthesis Essay Foreign Aid is one of the most valuable tools in creating a more peaceful and coexisting world. Aid given to other countries is highly valuable as it helps individuals in ways their government isn’t always able to. One of America’s biggest shortcomings is the unwillingness to give aid to countries if it will not directly help America or American interests. In the past Americas unwillingness to help has allowed thousands or even millions of people to suffer. Money should not come before human life.
Why does America spend so much on foreign aid? Have you ever wondered? Are there systematic political economy factors that shape preference for foreign aid? How is it benefitting them and what are their gains of giving out foreign aid? Giving foreign aid to other countries has been a key tool of American economic statecraft since World War II (Baldwin, 1986).
Background Haiti is an island which is located in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea, the island is 27,750 square kilometers in size and has approximately 10.8 million people, which ranks it the first populous country in the Caribbean. Despite, Haiti vast population 80 percent of the people live below the poverty line hence, half of the citizens are malnourished. In terms of healthcare systems, the island positions last in the western hemispheres and one of the world worst healthcare system due to their lacking sanitation systems, poor nutrition and insufficient health services, which continues to prevent Haiti development. In addition, for generations Haiti has
In the newly independent Haiti, all Haitians were defined as "black," and the notion of being black in Haiti was not an issue of phenotype but, “of a commitment to the values of equality and freedom and an opposition to colonialism”. Thus, generating a psychological shock to the emerging intellectual traditions of, “an increasingly racist Europe and North America that saw a hierarchical world eternally dominated by types representative of their own somatic images”. In Haiti, all citizens were legally equal, regardless of color, race, or condition, and civic participation was extended to all Haitians, and citizens were encouraged to utilize their freedom by expressing their rights. In the aftermath of the revolution, it became important to Haiti, that emancipation would be permanently maintained for all citizens of
Even though Haiti’s a poor country, his people have a big heart. Parents don’t want their child to work, they make them focus on school only, and their education. On the other hand, Americans just consider a child to be lazy if at their teenage age they still don’t work. They raise their children to be independent different from Haitian that make their children to depend on them. Another fact is that Americans are not really friendly; they avoid contact with people, and they have a hypocrite smile on their face, however, Haitians are really friendly, sincere, and courteous.
Unfortunately, a donor nation can also use their support as a means of blackmailing a recipient country to conforming to their own political agenda and exploiting them for their resources. Many scholars critique foreign aid stating that oftentimes, developing countries which can give back benefits are the ones given assistance instead of nations which really need help. They also argue that some countries who give aid use this as a tool to control the recipient country in terms of favors like setting up military bases, which leave the poor country no
Foreign aid does not help development in Africa, one can to the fact that it affects and drags the process of development these is hugely because these handouts constantly encourage dependency and corruption amongst government officials. ’ If foreign aid was to be properly extracted and managed by indigenous people, the natural resources that lay abundant across the landscape of Africa, the continent can completely eradicate poverty and as such propel to more durable and hence economic
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a solution for all difficulties in other countries. Instead it’s the American policy’s important tool that can be of use to the interests of the United States, as well as the world. Foreign aid is used to address humanitarian concerns, like relieving debt for the world’s poorest nations, especially ones that have been badly affected by war or natural disasters. Having our country built on Christian ethics and morals we share this common Christian ideal of a person. This ideal, grounded on human dignity, understands our social responsibility to help those who are poor and in need.
In the country of Haiti there are two groups of people the haves and the have not's. The need of the élite and the need of the masses are two completely different needs. In order for the elites who are running the country to meet their need, they allow the international country, mainly the US to exploit Haiti, in order for them to fulfil their own interest. The dependency theory has manifested itself in Haiti in four different ways, "foreign ownership of the Key resource, the mode of operation of multinational corporations, the parlous state of domestic agriculture, the austere lending policies of The IMF World Bank group" (pg. 51 Dependency and socialism in the modern Caribbean). These four different components put together are the main contributors to haiti's dependence to the international
Modern humanitarian organizations have largely been born out of waror battles (SLIM, 1996) and humanitarian action seems to ensue military action. While aid in principle should be impartial and neutral, foreign policy is not. Aid inevitably is often inseparable from international politics. Aid, although a humanitarian gesture by nature, is often forced to be selective, choosing to target its limited resources firstly to those who can benefit and be saved, and putting aside for later those who may not have hope (DE WAAL, 2010).Aid itself isvolatile and limited,
Hayter (1971:9) contended that, aid can be regarded as a concession by the imperialist powers to enable them to continue their exploitation of the semi-colonial countries. Stephen Browne (1999: 5) argued that, aid is never given freely. He warns that to an un-diminishing degree aid is bound up in packages, which attract the eye but constrain the hand, of the recipient. For the most part, aid policies are focused on specific countries rather than on broad objectives such as alleviating poverty. Evidence has shown that, “while donors use aid to create and foster the impression among the recipient countries that aid is beneficial to them, aid has failed to improve the situation of the poor as it has promoted the real interest of donors” (Lahiri & Raimondos-M0l1er, 1999: 21).
The foreign aid program is created to bring an end to poverty, conflicts and other difficulties that poor-developed countries are enabled to solve it. Everything is not about money, but it is about power, political view or group society. In many well-developed countries, corruption and political control are being reviewed by the UN and other governance, because they could be penalized or have sanctions. In a less-developed country that are already being helped with foreign aid, the governance and other aid programs must have their hands tied when it comes to penalized or sanctioned, because they are already in need, therefore corruption is created in those less-developed countries and hunger follows. There is the end of hungriness that is currently trying to be solved in the world, but there are still conflicts with political control that keeps the foreign aid to cause hunger in
