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Foreign Aid Works Best
When It's Self-LimitingPresident Isaias AfwerkiInternational aid packages are a web of self-perpetuating, inefficient programs that, far from helping lift recipient countries to their feet, only hold them down in perpetual dependence. "The endless conditions, provisos, and inflexible rules that are part of most of the current aid packages must give way to initiatives based on partnerships and shared ownership," says the president of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki.To that end, donor nations must stop considering foreign aid simply as a ticket to global political stability. What's needed is specific, temporary aid that will allow countries to fend for themselves. "While the Eritrean government welcomes properly focused aid programs, it is inclined to discourage the proliferation of fragmented aid programs that do a better job of meeting the needs of donor, rather than recipient, nations," says President Afwerki.The success of the Marshall Plan in Europe demonstrates that international aid can work. However, "whether Africa can summon geopolitical considerations of this magnitude amidst the political realities of the 21st century is a different matter," President Afwerki notes.
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