Foreign Aid
Foreign aid is frequently criticized
for failing to contribute to world economic growth and poverty decline. The
failure of foreign aid to achieve its expected goals of economic growth and
poverty elimination is of great apprehension due to the responsibility expected
of foreign aid to achieve Strategic Development Goals (SDG’S) through
participation. Some of the developmental
objectives that foreign aid is supposed to accomplish rely on the people assumptions.
Many individuals assume that foreign aid primary purpose is to help in poverty
reduction. The efficiency of foreign aid
capability to reduce poverty and obtain relevant development results is
inclusive of other related developmental outcomes.
Examples of such an effect include poverty precondition reduction. Individuals
benefiting from foreign aid never seem to understand that development is a
gradual process and that assistance from other countries to their countries
does not necessarily mean that foreign aid has to change the face of their
countries completely. Foreign aid has for sure contributed to the development
of some countries even though it has not been able to eliminate poverty in such
countries altogether.
- Salient Issues Relating To Access and Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Some
of the salient issues relating to access and effectiveness of foreign aid
include poverty and illiteracy. The majority of the world population is poor
and depends on one or less than one dollar a day .such individuals are left
with no option other than to rely on foreign aid to cater for their daily needs
or even to provide for their accommodation. Most people who live in the slums
are exposed to risking life conditions and health hazards. The trend of the
day among these individuals is based on survival for the fittest principal.
These people due to their poor conditions value foreign aid and see it as an
answered prayer to their tribulations.
Another
salient issue relating to access and effectiveness of foreign aid is
illiteracy. The majority of the population that depends on foreign aid is
illiterate individuals. Women are the leading persons with less knowledge of
education. Most of the times, men go out to work while women are left behind
taking care of their children. In some homes, women are the primary
breadwinners. Illiteracy slices women to an unemployment conditions as they are
unable to get employed with their low education status. Most of these women end up working for low
pay so as to sustain the needs of their families.
a)
Redress
strategies by African Development Bank and Latin American Countries
The poor People should be given
rights to assets ownership. Assets purchase includes both tangible and
intangible assets. Tangible assets
include all property that can be physically seen. Poor people should also be
given the right to property ownership and property access. The intangible asset
that poor people can benefit from is information access. Most poor people have
little or no knowledge on several issues including problems that affect their
lives directly. Most poor households are not
able to afford money for purchasing communication channels. There is a need for the government to ensure
that people from the slums get access to possible communication channels.
Getting access to information and communication channels will enable the poor
participate in economic, social and economic development projects. There is a
need to invest more on education and better health care for people living in
the slums. Governments should
continually invest on slums upgrading projects so as to ensure that citizens
stay in a clean and healthy environment. The government should also ensure that
all slum regions have accessible and affordable health centers. The issue of illiteracy can also be dealt
with through constructions of mores schools and ensuring that education is
available to all school going children.
b)
The
Impact That the Introduction of Agricultural Subsidies on Wheat Will Have On
the Pattern of Consumption of Tonga
The introduction of wheat in
Tonga as a subsidiary agricultural product will have greater impacts on the
country as it will enhance the country economic growth. The presentation of wheat will lead to
increased revenue for the country as the government total tax percentage
revenue will increase .Wheat consumption will also
improve the social status of the people of Tonga as some will get employment
opportunities due to the use of wheat within their region. Another impact of
wheat consumption for the people of Tonga is that it will enable the citizens
of Tonga to maintain the soil fertility of their area better due to the
concentration of different types of crops thus leading to soil fertility.
Australia whose is Tonga largest donor is will be influenced by the harvest
results on whether they should keep investing on Tonga or they should opt for
another country. Good yields will encourage more investment while poor returns
may discourage future investments.
c) How to Test the Outcome using a
Natural Experience
The
probability of the wheat to germinate to maturity will be determined by the
climatic conditions of Tonga at the time the wheat are grown. Tonga experiences
different weather conditions at certain times of the year. Due to its location
towards the ocean, the Kingdom is more pruned to natural disasters. The small
islands developing states of Tonga have a low climatic adaptive capacity, and
therefore the wheat may not perform well when grown here.
The Pacific region is influenced
by trade wind regimes, Walker circulation, seasonally varying
convergence zones and the paired Hadley cells.
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