Often, developing countries donate aid to developing countries in order to help them out financially or with materials. Recently, Dubai Cares had a joint venture with UNICEF (The United Nations Children’s Fund), its third venture so far, to initiate primary education programs in Yemen. Their main goal is to promote girls’ education and to get all Yemeni children to go to school. This could be demonstrated in the following PPF curve:
Potential Output: output produced if all factors of production are fully employed
Actual Output: What a country is actually producing
In the graph above, we can see that the quality of labor increases
Improvements in the standards of education would lead to better qualified citizens for jobs in the long run. So it creates more employment and this increases the equality of distribution and thus more people would spend which leads to an increase in government tax revenues. This could result in higher public spending, allowing there to be public and merit goods available. Merit goods are when the social benefit is greater than the private benefit and public goods are goods which are non-excludable and non-rivalrous. When a product is non-excludable, that means that one can consume a good without paying the price directly (Ex. Through taxes) and when it is non-rivalrous, then the use of it does not prevent anyone else from using it.
There is also a negative aspect to this aid. In the article, it says: ‘The standards will be within … views freely.’ In this statement, they imply that UNICEF will build schools for boys and girls irrespective to their background. In Yemen, the traditional and cultural customs of schools are that they would be separate for the boys and girls. So when the UNICEF builds schools that are uni-sex then this somewhat interferes with the Yemeni customs and this is seen as a negative consequence for most of those who live in the rural areas and some urban. A result of this could be that families don’t allow their children, especially girls, to go to school and the whole point of increasing the girls’ education fails.
Not only are they trying to improve primary education, but also works toward ensuring the supply of fresh water and sanitation as well as renewing damaged school premises and supplying school materials.
