Why have International Aid programs failed to bring about greater equality between the countries of the North and South?

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Why have International Aid programs failed to bring about greater equality between the countries of the North and South?

Over the years there have been many International Aid programs and yet "after more then three decades of development, many areas of the world are worse off today then they were thirty years ago, despite development programs and aid". (Tucker, 1999: 1) In the most part International Aid programs have failed to bring about equality between the North and the South. In order to ascertain why this is it is first necessary to assess what the countries of the North and South are and what is meant by equality and how it relates to the question in hand. It will also be necessary for us to discover what is meant by a failure in terms of aid programs. Following this I hope to be able to identify some of the main reasons why International Aid programs have failed in their attempt to bring about equality between these countries.

There has always been a question as to whether or not there is equality throughout the world, especially between the countries in the North and the countries in the