international aid
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- topic's main category
- Category:Aid
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- development aid
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Encyclopedic overview
38 sectionsContents
- Donors
- Classification of Flows
- Definitions and purpose
- Types
- By urgency and intended purpose
- Humanitarian aid and emergency aid
- Development aid
- By terms or conditions of receipt
- Other types
- Scale
- Top 10 aid recipient countries (2009–2018)
- Top 10 aid donor countries (2020)
- By nation
- Quantifying aid
- Official development assistance
- Not included as international aid
- Improving aid effectiveness
- Criticism
- Promoting poor governance
- Corruption
- Promoting conflict
- Aid dependency
- Deindustrialization
- Ineffectiveness
- Effects depend on geography
- Distorting incentives
- Ulterior agendas
- Political bias
- Vaccine diplomacy
- Policy incoherence
- History
- Arab countries as "New Donors"
- Public attitudes
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
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In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid, economic aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another. The type of aid given may be classified according to various factors, including its intended purpose, the terms or conditions (if any) under which it is given, its source, and its level of urgency. For example, aid may be classified based on urgency into emergency aid and development aid.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “international aid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.