Why some in the Global South are not mourning the demise of USAID | Opinions

The Blitzkrieeg campaign for US President Donald Trump was destroyed against the United States Agency for International Development Agency for the American Development Agency described as “the world’s largest donors” and left relief workers are scrambling to save the international development and humanitarian aid system. Many have regretted the dire consequences of the unprecedented US President’s decision as well as the moves by other countries, such as the United Kingdom, to reduce aid.
In the LinkedIn publication, commenting on the situation, Luka Curodili, who said that he was “immersed in development since 2003”, spoke about “the feeling that the moral center of our work is sliding quietly” and “uncomfortable awareness that the spirit of development may be lost in mixing of decades and strategic many.”
But describing “development” as a human spirit will be for many people in the global south as a contradiction in terms of terms. This does not mean that many people working in “development” are not decent human beings, and they are the human beings who are really interested in improving the well -being of others all over the world. It does not deny that the aid industry provides decisive assistance on which millions depend to stay.
This means that the spirit of “development” has always been much less human than its supporters. In fact, the entire aid institution was a tool for geopolitical control, a way to maintain global inequality, rather than eliminate it, and extract the resources that feed it.
In recent days, after the United States Agency for International Development, there was an increasing openness about this reality – consciously or unconsciously.
For example, the statement issued by the interaction, which “unites and inflates the voices of the leading American humanitarian organizations and development in America.” These organizations said Before rewriting a hasty“Work is tireless to save lives and progress in American interests worldwide.” He added that the attack on the US Agency for International Development has stopped “programs that support the global leadership of America and create dangerous voids that China and our opponents fill quickly.”
This does not seem very human, right?
Marina Copeziva, who spent nearly two decades as an auxiliary factor Stuck On how colleagues from the global and global south reacted differently to the statement. She described what he was suffering from as “a bad formulation, … a sincere mistake” while the latter expressed a sense of brochures: “Finally, they show their true colors.”
Western humanity has not only lost its path. It has been closely linked to Western colonialism from the beginning. For example, the Berlin Conference 1884-1885, which put the way for Africa’s invasion in Europe, was framing as a humanitarian event.
Although the first humanitarian organizations created to deal with the barbaric consequences of the conflict in Europe as post -World War II reconstruction projects, many began playing an active role in the global south, where they actively pushed imperial domination.
In fact, the aid industry inherited the “civilized mission” of colonialism. Its photo papers are on the extractive nature of the international system and attempts to reduce its worst transgressions without actually challenging the system. If anything, the two are in a symbiotic relationship. The relief industry is conducting the legitimacy of the extracted trade and global trade and governance systems, which in turn produces the results that give legitimacy to the presence of relief agencies.
As a result, today, despite the spread of aid and development agencies, the racist global system hardly leads, and deep inequality still describes the relationships between nations. A study conducted by the US Congress Budget Office in 1997 found that external aid played, at best, a marginal role in promoting economic development and improving human welfare and “can” hinder development depending on the environment in which these aid and conditions are used. “
Thus, it is not surprising that the aid sector finds itself on the edge of the abyss, some of those who claim that he will not be completely sad to see his back. “Some activists from the global south have proven the least concerned about aid discounts more than donors in the hope that this will force their leaders to take responsibility and stop depending on aid,” noted that “some activists from the global south have proven less concerned about aid discounts more than donors in the hope that this will force their leaders to take responsibility and stop depending on aid,” noted that “some activists from the global south have proven less concerned about aid discounts more than donors in the hope that this will force their leaders to take responsibility and stop depending on aid,” noted that “
This highlights how to replace the basic reform of the global and national systems of each of Colonial extraction For charity.
There is no doubt that the western aid cavity will be tragic and painful. Some of the most vulnerable people will suffer in the world, and many will die. We should not lose sight of this in arguments about the righteousness or a aid villain in general. The truth is that we must address the world as it is, not as we want to be, and do everything we can to improve the effect.
However, this is also an opportunity to start building a world without help. “If this is the beginning of the end of the aid,” Ali wrote, “We must focus on the structural shift.” This is the reform of the commercial systems and global approval that have witnessed the poorest wages in exchange for the lifestyles of the wealthy.
This does not mean that it will be a Hobbes world without solidarity. Instead, it will be that it will not be allowed for the charity to be a cover for global injustice.
You should also see the end of aid, the end of “development”, a harmful ideology that assumes that the “developed world”, whose prosperity was built to destroy other societies and the planet, is an example worth simulating. We need to work for an arrangement that really embodies a human spirit.
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2025-03-03 13:11:00