Reform not just aid

Giving money to poor countries can often fails to result in long term benefits as we would hope, could giving advance on how to improve their economy help more than just aid itself? 

• If we give a country money to build schools they may not know how to organize a school building project and waste money and when we leave they wouldn't have the money to build new schools.

• We could build schools for them but then when we leave they would not have people with skills to organize how to build a school or a company that can build schools for them. 

• What if we train people to know how to manage building a school? this is a better opinion.

Giving people money and advice when the government have policies that is hurting the free market can prevent the economy from improving and helping citizens. People and government need advice just as much as aid.

• Welfare reformThe same advice is also true to help the worse off in western countries, just giving them money is not the answer giving people skills is the best way off of poverty for the worse off. Government need to put more effort to helping these people have the skills for better jobs so they can be better off.

Haiti school podcast on how helping doesn't always work the way we would like.