Talk:Aid

message: Using sources from the 80s and not the current decade to talk about the effect of Aid as good or bad is too out of date now and there is no commentary on whether that summary or conclusion is even true today. Sources as old as the 80s or 90s should not be used to make comments on the nature or effectiveness or positivity or negativity of Aid today.
I was born in 1980. And was taught at school these criticisms about Aid in the early 90s. I am pretty sure the world has changed a lot since then, and people have been criticising and have acted on that criticism. So it is not true to say Aid is negative etc, and ignores the wellbeing of recipients. Please use only current sources, at least from the 2000s and afterwards. Not sources which are giving comments on the situation in the 80s before half the populations of the recipient countries today were even born. And so only what has happened in the recent lifetime of the people alive today is relevant, not what happened before half of the populations in those countries were born.
This is mainly regarding the "Criticism" section of the page. I mean it should be criticism of current Aid. Not historical Aid.
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.97.38.7 (talk) 17:48, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Outdated sources talking about positive or negative effect of aid

message: One thing I came here hoping to find out is, how much of foreign aid is actually loan based?  People talk about money given to these countries, but there are a lot of loans and loan guarantees.
:You are right, virtually all "Aid" is loans, albeit with favourable interest rates. Nonetheless they are loans.--Aa2-2004 (talk) 18:11, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Trying to search for a ref which says what proportion of aid is given as loans...--Aa2-2004 (talk) 18:12, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Loans

message: The current article is very skimpy, at least in comparison with its possible scope. Foreign aid has been around since just after the end of the Second World War. While the Marshall Plan was very successful and paid extremely handsome returns on our investment, other attempts to aid foreign countries made many U.S. citizens extremely angry.  Foreign aid is an experiment that has run for about 50 years now, so there should be plenty of studies of the results of various attempts to give such aid. 
If this article were to be merged with an article on "Aid," which could cover everything from disaster aid to food stamps to church-sponsored in-home nursing, it would either overwhelm the other topics covered or itself be reduced to such a tiny component that its complexities could only be outlined. P0M 06:39, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with "Aid"? 

message: I am a bit puzzled that humanitarian assistance is redirected to aid.  If it is to be redirected, it makes much more sense to redirect it to humanitarian aid, though maybe it should be the opposite i.e. humanitarian aid should be called humanitarian assistance as this is the term that is commonly used in the sector.Joel Mc 14:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  humanitarian assistance or humanitarian aid 

message: This link: Public Private Dialogue A resource for aid practitioners wishing to promote development through involvement of stakeholders (sponsored by World Bank, IFC, OCED, DFID, GTZ)
Was added by an IP address registered to the World Bank Group (publicprivatedialogue.org is a World Bank project). In keeping with our conflict of interest and external links guidelines I've moved it here for consideration by regular editors of this article who are unaffiliated with the site. To me, it doesn't really seem to contain encyclopedic information on Aid, being more of a how-to guide for people wanting to advocate for aid, so I'm inclined not to keep it on this article. -- Siobhan Hansa 18:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  publicprivatedialogue.org 

message: As there was limited referenced material in the Foreign aid article, I only merged a couple of sentences.  For reference purposes anyone wishing to examine the content in more detail may follow this link. Alan.ca 06:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completed Merge: Foreign aid 

message: I propose that the referenced content from Development aid be merged into this article.  It would permit the effort to be focussed on developing one good article with references with the possibility of future branching if sufficient information is collected. Alan.ca 06:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from Development aid 

message: I think the "Indicators of good/bad aid" subsection that someone tagged for neutrality should be removed entirely. As far as I can tell it has exactly one source (the one alluded to at the bottom) and does not represent any sort of consensus on the subject.
The Criticism section as a whole also seems to lack sources in some places, particularly in the paragraph starting "Many criticize U.S. Aid...", which seems to contain some person's personal opinion. I'd like to, for example, see some sources for this position: "The IMF can be good at helping countries over a short problematic financial period, but for poor countries with long lasting issues it can cause harm." But, yes, I don't particularly feel like rewriting this stuff myself, so your opinions would be nice. Elithrion (talk) 18:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The "some person" you are referring to is William Easterly, whose ongoing arguments with Jeffrey Sachs about the efficacy of aid are probably the most widely known in the field.  While the "Indicators of good/bad aid" section is rather badly formatted, the points receive broad consensus among aid workers, even if no one actually follows them. - BanyanTree 08:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality of criticism section 

message: I added the two sections entitled “Response to Criticisms of Aid” and “Recommendations for Improving Aid” to provide a more balanced look at aid.  The article was very heavy on criticisms and did not provide possible reforms.  Now the article provides a more holistic background on aid with the addition of Sachs, Singer and Collier as references.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koconnor3 (talk • contribs) 03:32, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Response to Criticisms Section  

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thread_title:  Images 

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thread_title:  Dr. Kohnert's comment on this article 

message: The article itself is very well cited and provides multiple perspectives of aid, which ascertains the neutrality of the article.  However, food aid is primarily mentioned in the form of emergency aid, which doesn't really cover the scope of it.  It might be useful to include an additional link to the green revolution in relation to food aid, instead of a brief mention under the intended use section.  Mtran920 (talk) 20:04, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Critique 

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message: This article is missing a clear hatnote and a clear definition, probably also a better article title, so editors have been confused and added lots of stuff that belongs in development aid and not here. Perhaps it should be merged with humanitarian aid or at least be better differentiated from it. --Espoo (talk) 10:00, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  confusion with [[development aid]] 

message: Hello i help children living in rural areas but i am also employed so they are not giving them any help it is difficult for me please help me ????? Ezedin zidan (talk) 22:24, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help