Does giving international aid sometimes cause more harm than good?

Does giving international aid cause more

good or harm?

International aid is an essential part of keeping a country going after a bad turn of events (a storm, forest fire or war). But people leading the countries could use the money for their own good and forget the whole reason they got the aid in the first place. You don’t know what anyone could do with money, and they might get consumed with greed. Now, this is not the only thing that could go wrong with giving aid. If a country that frequently experience heat at a dire measure, forest fires wouldn’t hesitate before spreading in different parts of the country, making the country providing aid slowly but surely lose money at a rate that wouldn’t even make sense.

I could understand the argument that countries need aid especially after war or terribly bad weather, which they do, but what you need to understand is that although they would be failing as a country without any money and in bankruptcy, they should also develop defences against natural disasters or enemies that would put their country in real trouble. My opinion would suggest that before giving aid, you should get the leader of the country needing aid to sign something like a contract telling them to use the money on their country and only their country.

Really, in the overall conclusion all I’m trying to say in my opinion is that failing countries need aid but sometimes they might use the money wrong or depend on other countries money to much too. All I want to say is aid can be good but it can also cause more harm than good.