Foreign Aid: Hot Take

Richard Lei
4 min readDec 16, 2020
Political Cartoon -Nate Beeler, 2011

When we think of foreign aid, we often hear failure; the multitudes of controversies that have arisen from it. When we think of foreign aid, we see richer countries using it to manipulate poorer countries. When we think of foreign aid, we believe that it would never be able to solve long-term problems. This however is not a fair viewpoint, as it does not give credit to the good that foreign aid has contributed to solving long-term problems. It is…

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Richard Lei

Just someone trying to express my own thoughts through writing, from the sunny coast of Singapore.