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The Pros And Cons Of US Foreign Aid

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The left side of the political ideological spectrum is more supportive of U.S. foreign aid. The left side supports the aid of disadvantaged countries because it helps strengthens alliances with other countries and it conveys the U.S. as a benevolent country. They also support the position that foreign aid does work. For example, public health, one of the most successful forms of aid that has had the “greatest breakthroughs” in aid. “The approach of increased aid that is well targeted through innovative institutions has been enormously successful in improving public health in low income countries”. One prime example of this is conflict faced against malaria in the early 21st century. In 2000 malaria became the focus of the global aid debate, and researches started to discover ways to stop and prevent the spread of malaria. But most countries that had an issue with the disease were third world countries, they couldn’t afford to buy these methods to prevent malaria, which led to massive amounts of deaths. “Governments of low income African countries needed donor support for the scale-up effort…” And so later WHO (world health organization) reinforced and contributed to the mass free distributions of bed nets throughout sub- Saharan Africa which proved overwhelming results of a 51% drop in deaths caused by malaria. This all happened with the help of foreign aid and contributions. This is …show more content…

They are cautious to change and are not sure if human reasoning is capable of solving socio-economical problems. Their core values such as free market and elitism support their position on being against U.S. foreign aid because they believe in benefitting our country more before others and that it is not our country’s responsibility to fix other countries problems before our own, so in result we shouldn’t take out loans to help other countries and bury ourselves into more

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