Actions of Nigerian Leaders Corruption heads the list of reasons for the failure of the objectives of foreign aid. One illustration is provided by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu who accused former leaders of stealing donors' assistance from Western countries worth $500 billion since the country gained independence (Ojeme & Ezinwa 2006)
He urged the public to spread the new awareness and drive against economic crimes in their country (Ojeme & Ezinwa). To Continue or Not to Continue A recent study conducted on the effect of foreign aid on welfare levels in Nigeria from 1971 to 2010 revealed that official development assistance and aid and bilateral aid have not demonstrated significant effect on the life expectancy at birth in either the long or short run (Oyedele & Lawal, 2013)
3). These partnerships have caused India's "IT revolution," in which sectors of India's population serve international Information Technology needs while greatly increasing their own incomes, and has also moved assertively into such industries as textiles, pharmaceuticals and electronics, all boosting India's economic strength while serving international needs in those areas (Sachs, 2005, p
Organized foreign aid as we know it initially developed in response to the widespread damage and economic instability caused by World War II. The current structure of foreign aid is largely based on international efforts begun immediately after World War II (Singh, 2008, p
From the definition of development aid, it can be noted that the foreign is not a free resource transfer that arrives with political and economic conditions. As a result, the role of the official aid should focus on finding ways of organizing and encouraging the new partners for profit and nonprofit in the productive fashion (Bauer & Onslow, 1999)
Other factors, which made some countries be poor include the large differences which existed as a result of using other measures of well-being that includes educational attainment, life expectancy and infant mortality. Given that living standards usually relates to productive capacity, poor countries as well continue becoming poor because they do not produce very much (Burnside & Dollar, 1997)
Foreign aid in its modern form intensified after the disruption which followed the Second World War. Research shows that development aid is very significant in supporting the economic growth in the developing countries (Easterly, 2002)
The reason was that, the disparities in living standards across most countries in the world were spectacularly large. Therefore, when using the capita income figures, it was found that the average of the citizens of the wealthy country were consuming much n few days as compared to what the poor countries would consume in a year (Hansen & Tarp, 2000)
The conducive policy environment that will provide donor friendly terms and conditions in terms of the social interaction, the tax exemptions on the goods and services concerned directly with the project being implemented, the de-politicization of donor projects are some of the fundamental means towards ensuring an enabling environment to the foreign aid and the donor projects being given support by local polcies. However, the systematic impact of these on corporate seems to be very minimal (Kanbur, 2003)
Research shows that the development of the private sectors is currently the most powerful tool that helps in lifting many people from poverty. According to the strategy paper for the Dutch foreign ministry, the paper reported that the private sectors have become the heart of the development processes, this is because, the sectors are driven by the quest for profit whereas they manage to invest in the new markets as well as, new facilities, which helps in strengthening the foundation of the economy (Temple, 2010)
Africa in general has long been revered for its rich mineral resources, fertile areas, and abundance of what was appropriated as human labor. This sentiment certainly applies to South Africa, which was long desired by Europeans for its "gold mines" (Cox et al
Urbanization and Foreign Aid Africa has long been the site of urbanization and foreign aid since the so-called Scramble for Africa (Hopkins, 1993, p
Other negative impacts of urbanization and foreign aid are reflected in the procuring of South Africa's resources to foreigners. For instance, many of the companies that have invested in South Africa's lucrative gold mining industry are foreign based -- meaning that South Africans labor to reap a product which the country and its native South African countrymen barely benefits from (Stoddard, 2013)
An example is the Marshall Plan which was done with Europe after the Second World War and was tied to Europe repaying its debt partially by buying goods from America. (Hook) Foreign aid is an important tool in comparative politics and in relationship building
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