Sociology Assignment | Sociology of Developing Countries
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Sociology Assignment | Sociology of Developing Countries
Added on 2020-05-16
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Running head: SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIESSociology of Developing CountriesName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIESForeign aid is the voluntary donation or transfer of monetary from one country to anyother country. This type of aid is chiefly provided when a country is involved in a war and itseconomy is in ruins, or in a case of natural disaster or any such national or international crisis.This assignment is going to talk about the positive as well as negative impact of war and peaceon foreign aid. This paper is going to analyze the topic with respect to the sub Saharan country,Rwanda. In the sub Saharan regions of Africa, authoritarian government rule over people, and theleaders expect foreign aids for the economic development of the poor people living in the regions(Cumming, 2017). They pledge for monetary support from the rich developed countries, but aftergetting the aid they do very little to use that money for the people. The countries, which providethe aid to them, feel dissatisfied with this kind of behavior.While providing the aid the donornations can place certain conditions in front of the poor nations, which they have to fulfill inorder to get the assistance (Dube & Naidu, 2015). The donor nations provide aid with an aim toimprove the economic and political conditions of the nations who require monetary help.According to the ideas suggested by World Bank and the International Monetary Fund(IMF), the structural changes of a country can include privatization of the public institutions,decreasing the expenditure of the military, if these steps are taken then the entire economy willbe benefitted. Crucial economic policies are needed to stabilize the social and political conditionsof the nations. Foreign aid is seen as a means to keep Rwanda prosperous and keep the peace intact in thecountry, still the wealthy and the powerful go into (Steinwand, 2015). This is the reason why theWorld Bank and the IMF treat Rwanda as a “special case” and provide help to the nation inspiteof the fact that the country does not fulfill the IMF criterion. Rwanda as a country has made a lot
2SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIESof progress in political as well as economic framework. The donor countries promise to supportthe countries who require aid provided that they will work to keep democracy, improve the socialand financial conditions of the country and alleviate the conditions of the poor (Faust,Grävingholt & Ziaja, 2015). The government of Rwanda is no exception it has also made certainpledges to their donor countries, for example the Rwanda government has promised to keep theLusaka Accords. In order to hold their end of the bargain the government has called their troopsback from the DR Congo and has made certain deductions in the army expenditure. Rwanda hasalso encouraged privatization by keeping minimum amounts of total foreign assets in the“National Bank of Rwanda”. Other promises include progress in democratic reforms, economicdevelopment, and proper governance. Since the genocide took place in Rwanda several years has passed, although foreign aidhas been proving helpful to change the economic conditions of the poor, yet not much differencehas occurred in the country as he aid is helping the elite to exercise control over the majority ofthe population while hindering their progress (Qian, 2015). The socio economic conditions of themajority of the people in Rwanda are below their promised progress levels. Poverty is one of themajor social concerns which is spread across the globe and it affects majority of the populationin Rwanda and other sub Saharan countries (Lim, Mosley & Prakash, 2015). To improve theconditions foreign aid was provided to Rwanda, but a different problem has come up assessingthe importance and efficiency of foreign monetary help to solve the socio economic problems.The international donor nations have favoured the Tutis tribe who are elite a minority groupcontrolling the reins of governance in Rwanda, they live in the urban areas while another tribenamed Hutus reside in the countryside. There has been allegations made that the foreign aid onlyreach the Tutis who are in power currently, and the President is afraid that the Hutus may
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