S. AID and other donors within the years 1960 and 1980 has vanished into oblivion. According to Brain Atwood, U.S. AID administrator who mentions about the doles extended to Zaire that the investment of more than $2 billion of American foreign aid was fruitless. The 1980s has been branded by the United Nations Development Program as the "lost decade" in case of a number of poorer nations. Over a greater part of this phase, the economic downturn or stalemate has impacted 100 nations, curtailing the earnings of 1.6 billion individuals which are once more greater than 25% of the population of the world. The average earnings of 70 of these nations are lower than what they were during the 1980s and in 43 nations less compared to what their state were in 1970. Global evaluation are generally weighed down with problems, however total aid intensities does not compare absolutely with economic growth, and a lot of the beneficiaries of the maximum foreign assistance have come to be the world's worst economic achievers. Indeed, just a positive connection will not be sufficient to show that aid indeed aids countries. The most crucial matter is causation, and there is no proof to suggest that aid fuels growth.

To conclude, in spite of the really massive inflow of "aid" into Third World countries, scant evidence is available to propose that this has been successful in encouraging self-sustaining economic growth of bettering the fate of the poorest sections of the inhabitants on the beneficiary nations. No shred of evidence is available to prove that half a century of doling out foreign aid shows that Washington possesses a distinct capability to anticipate which countries are prone to the maximum threat of vanishing, leaving aside the application of assistance to avert human tragedy like this. On the other hand, majority of the nations which have fallen into bedlam got considerable amounts of aid over the years. Regrettably, it is not just that the funds were not utilized properly; it frequently supported the very governments...

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Bandow, Doug. Help or Hindrance: Can Foreign Aid Prevent International Crises? Cato Policy Analysis. No. 273. April 25, 1997. Retrieved at http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-273.html. Accessed on 28 June, 2005