"Liberia receives an estimated $449 million in annual off-budget foreign assistance. And this estimate of off-budget aid excludes unknown amounts of funding from UNMIL, China, private foundations, and several bilateral and UN agencies." (http://aiddata.org/blog/the-elusive-quest-for-effective-aid-...)
After all this, if a country in the world's oldest continent still can't manage (because of corruption, apathy, whatever) it's certainly not your responsibility to step in and perpetuate such incompetence. If it takes a substantial reduction in population to finally affect change, then so be it.
Blunt, controversial, I don't care. 'Africa' needs to step up and take responsibility for its own destiny.
"Since 2003, the international community has poured billions of dollars of aid into the country." (https://www.devex.com/news/a-decade-of-aid-dependence-in-lib...)
"Liberia receives an estimated $449 million in annual off-budget foreign assistance. And this estimate of off-budget aid excludes unknown amounts of funding from UNMIL, China, private foundations, and several bilateral and UN agencies." (http://aiddata.org/blog/the-elusive-quest-for-effective-aid-...)
After all this, if a country in the world's oldest continent still can't manage (because of corruption, apathy, whatever) it's certainly not your responsibility to step in and perpetuate such incompetence. If it takes a substantial reduction in population to finally affect change, then so be it.
Blunt, controversial, I don't care. 'Africa' needs to step up and take responsibility for its own destiny.
More reading: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9121361/why-aid-fails/