overseas aid
Help for abroad
Overseas aid is money, goods, or services that wealthy countries or international organizations provide to developing nations.
It may target poverty, disease, disaster relief, or infrastructure development.
Also called foreign aid or international aid: The earthquake prompted a surge of overseas aid.
Critics debate whether such aid creates dependency or genuinely promotes development.
- poverty reductionDecreasing numbers below subsistence
- debt reliefReduction of obligations owed
- grantsAwarded funds for purposes
- strings attachedHidden conditions on offers
- humanitarian aidCrisis relief for sufferers
disaster response · refugee camps · international organizations · developing countries · development aid · clean water projects · food aid · conflict resolution · peace corps · emergency relief · boots on the ground · education access · World Bank · training programs · infrastructure development · military aid · hearts and minds · donor fatigue
- foreign aidforeign aid, aid, foreign assistance, international aid, humanitarian aid
- international affairspassport, embassy, visa, treaty, diplomat
- Jewish charitiesJewish charities, kosher meals, Holocaust survivors, Holocaust remembrance, burial society
- UK DiplomacyForeign Office, Foreign Secretary, British embassies, ambassadors, diplomatic missions
overseas aidforeign trade
Commerce between nations
international commerce · economic sanctions · trade embargo · bilateral trade · foreign investment
overseas, over, seas, seaward, seaborne, seafarer, seafaring, aiding, aids