Foreign Assistance
Critics contend that foreign aid programs are not working. Poor
countries are becoming poorer and the hungry are getting hungrier. This is
happening in part because of misuse of funds. The implementation of a
direct Human Resources Department would ensure that funds distributed to
countries were spent on development projects, but it could not ensure the
complete approval of other national funds. Building up the Peace Corps
budget would help by providing, for instance, basic educational aid, but it
would be limited to that basic education.
There are many benefits to implementing the USEGID. Because the
funds would come from already established programs, the proposal would
not signify an increase in taxes to cover increasing fiscal costs. The USEGID
would require assurances from the nation that their current national
educational budget would not decrease or be misguided in any way. Thus,
the education these students would be receiving would be in addition to
whatever their country would be providing. USEGID would provide higher
education that could be used to sustain growth in the future.
As can be noted, the USEGID proposal implies the most benefits at the
least cost. It provides the opportunity to offer furthering education to those
who can use it to better a nation and its people. They say it is the role of the
parents to teach their children to live on their own. Well, the same can be
said of a rich
10000advanced nation such as the United States to teach the world
9374
to sustain itself.
9000 Through the creation of the USEGID, nations
1395
with little or
poor intelligentsia
8000 can now help themselves to grow and thrive in the ever-
Total
connecting global
7000 arena.
Multilateral Aid
6000
U.S.
5000 Foreign Aid Bilateral and Multilateral
Bilateral Aid Spending for 2000
7979
4000
2792
3000
2008
2000 1369
800 623 811
1000
123 19 245 43 91 131 36 283
0
IA Development Bank and Investm
Food Aid
Debt Relief
Peace Corps
World Bank
Subtotal
Total
and Development
Foundation
Programs
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