International Aid to poor countries: advantages and disadvantages

IELTS essay (250 words). Thank you for comments.

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Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of giving international Aid to poor countries.

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Currently, a lot of third world countries receive Aids from the more developed ones. This situation, lasting for many years, has both, positive and negative aspects.

To begin with, humanitarian support is vital for Africa and some other continents. As a result of extremely low standards of living, people in such countries feel a huge lack of food and medicine. Therefore, the need of international Aid is undoubted. Furthermore, this support usually comes with education, which helps to prevent from AIDS and from other social diseases. Also, an Aid is inevitable after earthquakes and hurricanes when certain regions suffer from lack of drinking water.

However, there are some serious disadvantages of supporting poor countries. Firstly, most of governments in such regions do not make much effort to deal with social problems. Instead, they collect treasure and set strong restrictions for citizens, what even make a situation worse. Secondly, such countries as, North Korea invest money into weapons and create danger to whole world despite they have many problems inside them. Finally, there does not seem any clear future prospects and improvement. In other words, there is no evidence that this situation will ever end. In addition, birth rate in poor countries increases, as it falls in the richest at the same time.

In conclusion, international Aid must have long-term benefit for poor countries. Otherwise, it is only the question of time when developed countries would not be able to maintain growing number of people in the third world.