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Abstract:- The aim of this paper is to analyse how organizations to poor nations, as well as military,
foreign aid effect on education and development. humanitarian, and economic aid.
Education plays a fundamental role in developing
human capital and escalates economic growth by However, the first and the most successful foreign aid
increasing productivity, improving skills, and in the human history was the European Recovery Program
competency. Education brings benefits to individuals (ERP) after the Second World War commonly known as the
and a society as whole. Education plays an important Marshall Plan. At the end of 1940s United States’ secretary-
role in development and growth as per capital income, general George Marshal announced that it is time of
and it reduces poverty removes income and social rebuilding Europe. During the Second World War the
inequalities. European economy was destroyed. Due to the combination
of the natural disaster in Europe at that time such as drought
Keywords:- Aid, Education, Development, Humanitarian. and blizzards, and the man-made disaster of war, it let
increasing unemployment rate, poverty, widespread
I. INTRODUCTION starvation, wretched and homeless in the whole of European
countries.
Education is one of the most significant aspects that
plays a huge role in the modern, industrialized world. Highly developed nations in Western Europe, New
Society needs a good education system to be able to survive. Zealand, Austria, Japan, North America, oil-rich nations in
Fortunately, today society realize that how education is the Middle East, as well as the middle-income nations like
important for the future generations. At the same time, many South Korea, Brazil China, and India, all have established
countries are spending a lot of money on a good education foreign aid programs. The importance of foreign aid as a
system, and people are actively encouraged to win foreign policy tool was substantiated by the fact that foreign
scholarships and continue their high level of education. aid recipient nations were also foreign aid donors.
People need a high level of education to have a better life in
the future. Historically, most of the foreign aid is given directly
from one government to another as bilateral assistance.
Education play its role in development, economic Also, Donor nations provide indirect aid as multilateral
growth and benefit the society and individual as well. For assistance, which pools resources together from many donor
individual education increases employment opportunities nations. The major multilateral institutions included the
and higher income and improved life quality and decrease World Bank, the International Monetary Fund; the African,
unemployment. Education is the backbone of the society. Asian, and Inter-American Development Banks, and
The objective of this study is to determine the impact of different United Nations agencies like the United Nations
foreign aid on education, and development. Development Programme (UNDP). The United States has
been one of the largest donor countries in the world, when it
II. THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN AID ON comes to foreign aid.
EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
In the period of 2004, the United States has provided
Foreign aid is given to developing and third world over $19.5 billion in ODA with Create Britain, France,
countries to facilitate their economic growth, improve Germany, and Japan. When foreign aid donor countries are
human welfare, and reduce poverty. Aid is contributed to measured, the most donor nations are Sweden, Netherlands,
world security by tackling threats to human security, like Norway, and Luxembourg. However, each of these donor
disease, human trafficking, population growth, human rights nations has provided between 0.79 - 0.92 percent of GDP in
violations, peace-making, environmental degradation, and the year 2004. Saudi Arabia also is one of the world donors
the growing gap between the north and the south. and it has provided aid equivalent to about 0.69 percent of
its income. The United States was one of the smallest donor
Poverty and inequalities are often cause of internal nations by this measure at about 0.17 percent of its income
conflicts, social instability, which in turn, can produce flows in 2004.
of refugee, migrants and acts of terrorism. Therefore,
foreign aid helps in building a more peaceful, a safer place The aim of aid is thought to fit within these rationales:
and a more secure world. Foreign aid is resources given by The main objectives of foreign aid include promoting
rich to poor countries. Foreign aid can be food, money, development, economic growth, reducing poverty,
loans from the government to governments or from protecting the environment, improving governance,
III. CONCLUSION
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