On the other hand, Western aid often is bad because it forces local product vendors and farmers to compete with the price of things like food and clothing
it's also bad because it usually comes with strings attached. Like "We'll give you food aid but first you have to take out these high interest loans from the IMF and privatize all your nationalized industries and allow foreign investment and crack down on labor unions and lower corporate taxes and relax safety and financial regulations and .... "
also western "food" aid is sometimes a straight up trojan horse for getting weapons to right wingers planning a "totally organic and supported by the population" coup "revolution"
"Those who come with wheat, millet, corn or milk: they are not helping us. Those who really want to help is can give us plows, tractors, fertilizer, insecticide, watering cans, drills, dams. That is how we would define food aid" - Thomas Sankara
On the other hand, Western aid often is bad because it forces local product vendors and farmers to compete with the price of things like food and clothing
One of those right for the wrong reasons takes.
it's also bad because it usually comes with strings attached. Like "We'll give you food aid but first you have to take out these high interest loans from the IMF and privatize all your nationalized industries and allow foreign investment and crack down on labor unions and lower corporate taxes and relax safety and financial regulations and .... "
also western "food" aid is sometimes a straight up trojan horse for getting weapons to right wingers planning a "totally organic and supported by the population"
coup"revolution""Those who come with wheat, millet, corn or milk: they are not helping us. Those who really want to help is can give us plows, tractors, fertilizer, insecticide, watering cans, drills, dams. That is how we would define food aid" - Thomas Sankara