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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are there still thousands of people dying from lack of food and water in third world countries despite decades and decades of aid and fund raising?

There are always ads on TV asking for aid and charity events every year raising millions and millions yet things don't ever seem to improve much.
gpt
Hunger and poverty cannot be eliminated by simply feeding people. One must build a productive infrastructure and a healthy economy in those places where poverty reigns. People need to be able to sustain themselves by their own means for the long term in order eliminate poverty. It is a slow process that takes years. Politics, "Nation Building" and differences in religious ideology get in the way and the shifting power dynamics breed distrust and contempt. Conflict and war is often the result. The poor and dependent remain poor and dependent. Pawns in an ugly game without end.