Should foreign aid be reallocated to go only to "good performers"?

[yllus]

I got curious today and used Twitter to ask a columnist at a national news rag if the policy outlined below was ever adopted.

Turns out that mostly in the last year, the Canadian government began implementing the recommendations of the Senate report as part of what they've termed the Aid Effectiveness Agenda. Most significantly, it's focused 80% of aid to be doled out to 20 countries (see Countries Of Focus).

This is a pretty big step forward, one all Canadians should be proud of. Kudos to the Canadian government for getting this done.

 

[werepossum]

Sounds great in theory, works lousy in reality.

Egypt is bad, so we cut off funding and then we watch their government fail because they no longer have us helping them. Then we go from a bad Egypt to a worse Egypt.

Screw good verse bad and focus on what is best for America.

Sure I'd much rather only help 'good' countries, but I am not going to shot myself in the foot in order to do so.

Quoted for truth and wisdom.