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To speak directly to your question of whether this is a blip or a trend, I believe that there will ebbs and flows and it could certainly be the case that we are in a patch right now where this is going to be less true than it was five years ago, but overall I don’t see the general trajectory changing. The self-interest became more inline with development concerns. But it did make sense to, with the increase with globalization and the increase in connectiveness, to start to realize that it’s becoming harder and harder to stop problems that were occurring in other countries, particularly in developing countries, from making their way to industrialized states, the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia and others. Post-Cold War that rationale didn’t make any sense any more there was no Soviet Union. It’s the self interest that has changed over time.ĭuring the Cold War the self interest was getting more countries on our side in the struggle against the Soviet Union. I think that foreign aid or more broadly our engagement with developing countries has always been self interested. Is it a bad thing that aid has become so self interested?
Trade agreements specifically between industrialized and developing countries.Ĭountries have always seen giving aid to aid as strategic priority as well as a way to help others. As well as targeting developing countries for things like trade agreements, which was something that virtually didn’t exist before 1990. And then after September 11, 2001, the Bush administration had a real change of, I don’t know if heart is the right word but a change of strategy with regards to the developing world and ended up instituting large new foreign aid plans including the Millennium Challenge Corporation and PEPFAR, the President’s emergency plan for AIDS relief, both of which are still around today.
Bush administration came into office, there was a tendency not to want to be engaged with foreign countries and there was a sense that things like foreign aid or engagement with developing countries would suffer as a result of this. I think it’s a trend that started at the end of the Cold War but really picked up after September 11, 2001. is increasingly choosing to target foreign aid to places where it is beneficial to the U.S.’ own interests, rather than simply to places that need help. and Foreign AidĬonversation highlights have been edited for readability and clarity.
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