Why did Foreign Aid Fail so Miserably?
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
- The West has pumped trillions of dollars into poor nations over decades and despite a poor track record, the levels are increasing every year. Why has aid been so unsuccessful in promoting development and why do we continue to believe in it?
In this video we look at the situation today, who is giving and who is recieving, the history of aid and why aid has failed in many instances.
Part II is coming up in May.
Small Circles Forward by Daniel Karlsson Lönnö 2023.
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00:00 Intro
02:01 Who are giving?
03:05 Who is the most generous?
03:24 Who is recieving?
04:04 History of Aid
06:08 Aid and dictators
07:14 Structural Adjustment
08:18 Why has aid failed?
10:40 The problem of planners
13:32 Outro
Visualizations:
ODA Giving Nations 2021. 1 marker = 100 million USD. Yellow markers indicate bilateral support and pink markers multilateral support. DAC Member and Observer states.
ODA Giving Nations as % of GNI 2021. 1 marker for 0,1 % of GNI. DAC Member and Observer states.
ODA Recieving nations 2020. 1 marker for 100 million USD.
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This feels a bit like Hans Roslings content back in the day. Inspirational to break down complex issues and visulize them they way you do. Soucre critique seems to be at the heart of your content, in addition to bringing neuanced perspectives. 2 thumbs up from me!
Thanks for all the research that went into this. Very clear explanation of the many problems. 😃
Yesss! Been longing for some more investigative, analytical content from you.
I'm looking forward to the follow up videos on this complex and important topic.
Very interesting. Thanks. Just discovered your channel and subbed.
Wow!
I've given to Lutheran World Relief for years at Christmas time. It's very focused: chickens and a rooster / other livestock with training. a year's tuition for a school girl, a month's access to Internet for a village, a well for clean water, etc. After seeing this I went and took another look at the site. There are no stats on successes, just anecdotes. That tells me the stats would probably show a lack of success.
LWR is audited and has a high rating for donated dollars actually going to programs and not to administration, also no corruption.
I'm starting to wonder what I'll do this Christmas.
One of misconceptions about charity is that the % of money spent on administration should be as low as possible. After all, this is also money spent for ensuring that program is successful. If it’s very low, charity probably just send money to recipients without any thought
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Great infos and yeah we should rethink how foreign aids work, we can't just pour money at international issues.
Why is it so empty in this comment section by the way ?
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Financial and technological aid did help them to an extend to increase their population numbers.
It is a tragedy. Either way we are doing it wrong.
If we stop giving, they will encounter drastic shortages and also turn to Russia and China. Which they already do in some places.
Whoa so this is an interesting video however I felt like right when the thesis was forthcoming the video just kind of ended. 14 minutes is not even scratching the surface of this idea so the thesis isn't supported. This video is a first chapter of a video that's at least three times as long, but the leg work wasn't put in to make the content compelling. Everything else is good though, production etc.
Part II coming up in May, thank you for watching!