THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACT OF AID ON DEVELOPMENT-GEOGRAPHY GRADE11

POSITIVE IMPACT-*Aid attempts to reduce poverty.*Technical aid provided to farmers increases agricultural production and ensures food security.*Industrial development creates employment and improves standards of living..*Helps to improve infrastructure(transport)..*Humanitarian aid saves millions of lives.

NEGATIVE IMPACT-*Aid doesn't always take into account the needs of the local population..*Corruption in many developing countries results in the misuse of aid as a result aid doesn't reach the people for whom it was intended,the rich gets reacher the poor get poorer.*Sometimes food aid is sold privately on markets.