13 Facts About Aid

Aid can be classified according to the terms agreed upon by the donor and receiving countries.

Aid given is generally intended for use by a specific end.

Aid is often pledged at one point in time, but disbursements might not arrive until later.

Aid is "stovepiped" towards narrow, short-term goals relating to particular programs or diseases such as increasing the number of people receiving anti-retroviral treatment, and increasing distribution of bed nets.

Aid can involve inflows of money to poor countries that have some similarities to inflows of money from natural resources that provoke the resource curse.

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Aid can take the pressure off and delay the painful changes required in the economy to shift from agriculture to manufacturing.

In November 2012, a spoof charity music video was produced by a South African rapper named Breezy V The video "Africa for Norway" promoting "Radi-Aid" was a parody of Western charity initiatives like Band Aid which, he felt, exclusively encouraged small donations to starving children, creating a stereotypically negative view of the continent.

Aid is seldom given from motives of pure altruism; for instance it is often given as a means of supporting an ally in international politics.

Aid's alternative, called the "Searchers" approach, uses a bottom up strategy.

Aid believes, for several reasons, that aid to small "bottom up" organizations and individual groups is a better philosophy than to large governments.

Aid surmises that if donor and recipient countries follow the plan, they will be able to climb out of poverty.

Aid contends that this hurdle in government should not disqualify entire populations for much needed aid from the west.

Aid cites the lack of correlation between the average degrees of Economic Freedom in countries and their yearly GDP growth, which in his data set is completely inconclusive.