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Aid for Donor Interests
Summary: How Aid has failed to improve the situation of the poor as it has promoted the real interests of donors
Lack of development in countries in the so-called `Third World' has many political and economical reasons. Historians explain the inadequacy of developing countries with the early imperialism and the resulting colonization of the South. Exploitation of mineral resources, deforestation, slavery, and the adaptation of foreign policies shaped the picture of today's suffering and struggling civilizations and natural rich continents. The omission of concessions and equal negotiations between dependency and supremacy give rise to the contrast of enormous resources and immense poverty in developing countries is. In the last years the outcry of justice and the emancipation of the Third World became louder throughout developing and industrialized countries and its population. This shout for justice refers mainly to Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and loans imposed by donor countries and institutions on recipient countries, bound on conditions and regulations. Designed to improve a country's investment climate, SAPs are gaining stronger...
This section contains 3,161 words (approx. 11 pages at 300 words per page) |