Sometimes Global North countries place conditions on foreign aid money given to the Global South. For example, the United States refused to grant aid money to any country that did not have explicit anti-prostitution laws. What are the strengths and weaknesses of imposing conditions on foreign aid? Should Global North countries use their influence in this way? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Donors have grown increasingly insistent on "conditionality," or demands that aid
recipients must meet to receive continued assistance. Donors also persist in "tying"
development assistance to the donors for their benefit, such as requiring purchases
from the donors, even though the World Bank estimates this practice reduces the value
of aid by 15 to 30 percent, decreases its efficiency, and violates the same free-market
principles that the Global North claims to promote. On top of this, Global South
countries complain that the Global North donors have been promising for the past 40
years to allocate 0.7 percent of their gross national product (GNP) to foreign aid, but
only a few have kept the promise or even come close.
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