INTERNATIONAL ORDER

International Order

International Order

Tied aid can alleviate the painful process of transition, when the centralized planning has declined, but free enterprise is still not developed. Tied aid can come through various channels, i.e. from the international donor agencies, from neighbouring countries or from the NGO's. Tied aid should not go solely by national governments. There are strong arguments in favor of working with local governments and NGOs. Democratic governments should not oppose the distribution of aid through NGOs; on the contrary, they should welcome such an opportunity.

Just those governments that cannot be trusted oppose the use of non-governmental channels. Although tied aid has contributed to addressing problems associated with food shortages for the population of African countries, many experts believe that in the long term, these problems cannot continue to carry out the same way. Indeed, experience shows that food aid may be withdrawn only temporary difficulties. But such measures would undermine the long-term plans to create conditions for complete food self-sufficiency in Africa. It is believed that foreign food aid only eliminates the symptoms of disease rather than its cause.

Finding a solution to end world poverty, famine, diseases and other preventable causes, might seem easy to accomplish but it is far more complex to achieve. The question is where do we begin and how do we achieve this? We can probably start off by following Singer's solution by first becoming a member to one of the well known NGO's UNICEF, Oxfam, and Bread for the World or others. Second, Singer strongly persuades that donations should be taken in consideration as part of our obligations to help the poor in the developing nations. Otherwise, it would be unethical and shameful for us to abandon and deprive the developing countries from all sources of resource.

Besides, are we not suppose to “help one another against good and bad”, then again no sacrificial efforts are being made to save the poor from starvation. But then again if the government is not doing anything to sustain its own country, why should we? Based on a most recent statistic on Africa, foodforafrica.com indicated that at about 33 percent of the African population are fighting for their survival from starvation and slowly dying from preventable causes such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and HIV/AIDS. In Addition an estimated 9.2 million children died in the year 2007 according to UNICEF, the majority were at the age of five.

Meanwhile, Singer proclaims that the average American family living in the U.S. spends one third of their income in unnecessary things, like buying a new car, clothing “going out to a nice restaurant, vacationing at beach resorts” (pg98) and so forth. Clearly he indicates that all that money being used to buy these unnecessary things should be donated to help a dying kid or family in Africa. Kuper on the other hand advocates that the element to help the country in poverty status is by rebuilding an infrastructure and by removing the bureaucratic government that has led the ...