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Poverty and Development Despite the high prospects generated in the early ![]() Aid Foreign aid, or development assistance, is often ▪ it does not promote faster growth but may in fact hold it back by substituting for domestic savings and investment; ▪ it is generally focused on the growth of the modern sector, thereby increasing the gap in living standards between the rich and the poor in recipient countries; ▪ if the aid given is concerned with unproductive fields or obsolete technology, it will have the effect of increasing the inflation in the country; and ▪ it is often donor countries that impose or make interference in the economic and political activities of the recipient country. Note, the United States' foreign aid is divided into two broad categories: military aid and economic assistance. Other large sums are given to non-government organisations, agencies and individuals in other countries through American foundations, churches and other organisations. At the Centre, we research poverty and development very closely and weight in both the positive and negative aspects of aid. | RESEARCH SUSTAINABILITY HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIETAL STUDIES SOCIETY STUDIES RIGHTS SOCIOECONOMICS POLITICS OF FOOD GENDER POVERTY AND AID POLITICAL ECOLOGY GEOPOLITICS INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION LIVING ON LESS THAN US$1.25 PER DAY. UNITED NATIONS ESTIMATES 2000-2007 NET OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FROM DAC AND OTHER OECD MEMBERS, 2011 [PDF FILE] COUNTRIES SCALED TO THE FOREIGN MILITARY AID RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED STATES, 2014 COUNTRIES SCALED TO THE ECONOMIC AID RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED STATES, 2014 |