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American Foreign Aid Advantages
In 2012, the United States supplied nearly $12 in Official Development Assistance (OCD) to many African nations. The OCD are assigned to, health, education, infrastructure and economic growth in these developing nations. Also, the United States is delivering foreign aid to 47 African nations. For instance, during the 2000s, the United States of America who was President Bush, tripled the aid to Africa by setting up vital programs like the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund, along with the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative. This explains that President Bush assisted the Africans a lot by providing health care services to cure contagious diseases for the Africans. Furthermore, the American foreign aid to Africa can help create better alliances and support for both of the countries and could increase trade between these two countries. …show more content…

Many critics of the government point out many faults and unfortunately most of the money doesn’t reach to the Africans who are very in need. As stated by George Ayittey, the President of the Free Africa Foundation, “Instead 80% of the aid’s money is spent on the American suppliers, American contractors and so forth.”Some critics even insist that providing foreign aid to Africa would be useless since Africa still encounters the same

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