Very little foreign aid helps the people. Most of it lines the pockets of political leaders and businessmen in multinational corporations. In fact, one study by the Cato Institute found that foreign aid actually harms developing countries by rewarding economic failure and delaying market-based reforms. An even greater concern with foreign aid is that a lot of foreign aid money goes to agencies involved in family planning which is often merely a code phrase for condoms, abortion, and other forms of birth control. Each year the U.S. spends approximately one billion dollars for family planning just through the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Foreign aid is inefficient, ineffective, and controversial.
I'm Kerby Anderson of Probe Ministries, and that's my opinion. Probe Ministries International Kerby Anderson is the president of Probe Ministries International. He received his B.S. from Oregon State University, M.F.S. from Yale University, and M.A. from Georgetown University. Signs of Warning, Signs of Hope, and Moral Dilemmas . He is a nationally syndicated columnist whose editorials have appeared in the Dallas Morning News, the Miami Herald, the San Jose Mercury, and the Houston Post.