Peter Signer's The Life You Can Save: Saving A Child

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In these chapters of “The Life you Can Save: Saving a child,” the author, Peter Signer, describes to the reader about improving Aid, A New Standard for giving and A realistic approach. His first point is How to improve aid because he did research that many nations giving aid to preserve their political image as well as to receive benefit from the country that they are helping. Signer gathers data and facts who get the donation money. His facts, countries that have been able to pull themselves out of poverty that have generally received little aid and he argued that the key to lifting people out of poverty is to include them in the global market than giving aid. Signer approve to point. he out rich nation agriculture subsidies in particular

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