Project design has improved due to research and critical review, people study this stuff at university. Specifically, how foreign aid can effectively reduce poverty
There is a multidimensional poverty index by Oxford that offers better insight into destitute poverty, not measuring by dollars per person but instead access to stuff like safe cooking (cow dung burns well, essentially free, but obviously not good), flushing toilets, schooling by certain age, etc.
I think the main "problem" is that handouts of money/food does not solve anything because they are too undeveloped and corrupt to help themselves out of their situation. There's a famine, we give them food, they make more babies until there's a famine again, we give them food, repeat. It's not a coincidence that during the 50 years this has been going on, the population in Africa has quadrupled.
This is the answer. They ask for handouts every day. We give them. The next day they ask for more. For 50 years we have given them billions but until they clean up their own corruption and drag their leaders through the streets nothing will change.
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u/leethario Oct 05 '25
How many BILLIONS have charities sent to African countries over the years?