Foreign Aid Failure

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With Foreign Aid comes a great responsibility without a stable government the Aid won’t do anything for the people of that country. An example of this is '' The millennium challenge account (MCA) and the organization that oversees it, the millennium challenge corporation, have shown some success in allocating aid to developing countries on the condition that these improve their rule of law. However, the MCA still tends to offer money to countries that are making dismal progress as long as some progress is made.'' ( Greenhaven ) The government is trying to make progress and give the nations who are trying to make change. Also it shows that they are willing to give support to the nations who have a possibility of making it on there own without

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