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CMV: Rich nations should generally not send any aid to countries poor corrupt nations, for humanitarian purposes.

Most of the poorest nations in the world don't have an economic problem; they have political problems.  The institutions of their nations are fundamentally broken.  The governments of these nations are designed to siphon the funds of the nation into a small group of key supporters.  No amount of economic aid can help a nation when none of it sees the people it is meant to help.  In fact, this aid is often used by corrupt oligarchies to support their system since they have already drained their nations of money.  This means that aid will just perpetuate the political problem.   For example, Live Aid did very to help the starving people, but it did help the Ethiopian government by some very expensive weapons.

Nations should also be wary of using aid to incentivize political reforms.  These can help, but these corrupt systems are often good at providing the bare minimum amount of reform on a surface to appear to be reforming without solving the fund Emt Anl problems with the government.
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It's not a problem of rich nations sending humanitarian aid to poor corrupt countries so much as it is a problem with the vehicles and avenues by which rich countries provide that aid. Instead of providing large lump sums to the governments of these countries where it will, likely, be siphoned off into offshore bank accounts or fund military actions, it should instead be given directly to the inhabitants of those countries without a middle man.


There have been multiple studies that show that giving money directly to the people in poor nations, by either depositing money into an account of some kind, or just straight up giving them cash, that almost all of the money directly benefits both them and the surrounding economy. They will use it to buy farming equipment they need, cows to produce more milk, and so on.


The solution isn't to stop sending humanitarian aid, it's to send it in a distributed fashion to individuals, rather than going through middlemen and third parties.