international aid

• aid is money given from a high income country to a low income country to help with development
• short term aid

  needed after sudden disasters. the UK sent 10 million, a rescue team and 1200 tents to india after an earthquake in 2001. they help with the immediate disaster relief but often not able to help longer term recovery efforts
• long term aid

  money given for a specific project over a long period of time. until 2015, India received over 200 million pounds each year from the UK to tackle poverty, however aid often does not always reach poorest people
• tied aid

  aid given with conditions attached
• charitable aid

  raised by donations from charities. after the 2001 earthquake in india, NGOs like Oxfam provided supplies and temporary buildings
• bilateral aid

  when one country gives money to another, only two countries are involved
• multilateral aid

  when more than one country gives money, eg through the world bank
• top down aid

  when an organisation or government receives the aid and decides where it should be spent, could be things like dams for hydroelectric power or irrigation schemes
• bottom up aid

  money is given directly to local people, water aid trains local people to maintain village hand pumps in rural india, and they can improve health, skills and income
• UK aid to india has been used to improve standards of education, health and sanitation in insia
• india spends an estimated 600 million pounds on its programme to launch rockets into space, so the UK has decided they dont need aid money any more