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0 pointsTheKarateKid5y ago0 comments

Are you really complaining about too much aid being given to a continent mostly stricken with extreme poverty?

I think the African people have more to worry about than supporting local clothing makers. The fact that they can be clothed cheaply allows them to concentrate on other problems they are facing.

See: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

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hn_throwaway_995y ago

> Are you really complaining about too much aid being given to a continent mostly stricken with extreme poverty?

Yes, absolutely, and there is plenty of evidence that a lot of this aid keeps Africa in extreme poverty.

This is not an extreme, or at this point even a particularly unusual, viewpoint. Some other sources that argue, convincingly in my opinion, why much of the aid given to Africa over the past 50 years has been counterproductive:

https://youtu.be/Jv4cAVzC8xM - good video about a Ghanaian entrepreneur and how NGO aid hurts the economic development of his country

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/13/why-t...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/-gYxhXHjOckC?hl=en

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/08/05/afri...

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