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Development Aid

“Izandla ziyagezana” - “Hands Wash Each Other”

aid. Some would say their programme failures and institutional weaknesses together with
their distance' has undermined the value of that multilateral aid.

Some criticisms of aid giving can only be viewed as criticisms of the aid donors

themselves - and not of the act of giving aid. Time and again academic studies evidence
the 'self-interest' pursued by aid donor nations in their aid allocations. A self-interest that

academics increasingly report as making questionable any realistic evaluation of the
effectiveness of development aid as a whole.

Many of those making criticisms do so by claiming a higher morality for themselves, a

higher morality which is undermined by their own actions. Some will regard much of the
criticisms of China's development finance as evidence of this. And others will look at the

structure of USA aid and question the 'gap' between the claimed for 'worthiness' and the

actuality. The volume of media criticism of China in Africa is also disproportionate to that
of France whose well recorded activities might reasonably be considered as nefarious.

Development Aid is typically portrayed as being concerned with lifting populations out of

poverty and inequality. If it fails to do this, if it has failed to do this, it may not be that
development aid itself is wrong or even 'over-hyped'. It may be that the structures that

channel development aid to Africa need substantial reforms.

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" Foreign aid neglects domestic needs

Foreign aid is just colonialism in disguise
Foreign aid is wasted

Giving foreign aid makes countries dependent instead of independent

Foreign aid promotes favoritism “
"The Pros and Cons of Foreign Aid," 451
DevelopmentAid. (August 2016)
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“ None of the poorest countries in the world is among the top recipients of US aid. Most
aid goes instead to Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Afghanistan and Kenya, again for reasons of

geopolitics and trade.”
"Foreign Aid for Developing Countries – Problems and Solutions." 452
Gov Capital (blog). (June 2018)

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