aid

• Aid is assistance given from one country to another. ​It includes money, equipment, training and loans. ​It can be foreign aid from the government of one country to another - or from to a country or region.​
• how aid reduces development gap:

  • Supporting development projects such as improving sanitation, water supply and education in the long term.​
  • Providing short term aid in response to natural disasters.​
  • Donating resources to a country to help or improve people’s lives.​
  • Investing in development projects.​
  • Improving healthcare and education so future generations can have a better quality of life.​
  • Help being given by governments or NGOs who usually don't expect anything in return.​
• advantages

  Aid can help reduce the development gap by providing resources like money, food, education, and farming help that improves people's quality of life and standard of living in poor countries
• advantages

  In an emergency, humanitarian aid can provide short-term essentials like bottled water and tents to keep people alive.​
• advantages

   In the long term, development aid can help to improve the place socially and economically by improving things like healthcare and education so future generations can have a better quality of life.​
• disadvantages

  Developing countries may end up having a dependency syndrome or dependency culture.​
• disadvantages

  Food aid may distort market forces and loss of economic efficiency.
• disadvantages

  There is likely to be a risk of corruption, and the aids may not reach their rightful recipients.
• disadvantages

  Aid does not always reach the country's most in need and some countries have corrupt governments that siphon off aid cash to fund their own luxuries or political events.