5.1 Learning Outcomes
Aimee Samara Krouskop and Ben Cushing
This chapter offers you the opportunity to:
- Identify ideologies and systems that are the foundations of global inequality.
- Discuss how foreign assistance, humanitarian aid, and development have instilled positive impacts as well as increased global inequality.
- Explain the mixed impacts of foreign assistance, humanitarian aid, and development.
- Illustrate new perspectives and movements that exist for addressing global inequality.
definition
aid given by a national government to countries in need.
aid to alleviate suffering and mitigate the effects of disaster provided by governments and non-governmental organizations for a short-term period until longer-term help can be provided by local governments or other institutions.
