> set up of foreign aid programs in pursuit of goals that are entirely unrelated to effectiveness. Mostly true, but the side-effect are quite positive. I'd arg

> set up of foreign aid programs in pursuit of goals that are entirely unrelated to effectiveness. Mostly true, but the side-effect are quite positive. I'd argue that in the long run, foreign aid between 1990 and 2012-ish was more effective than any charity donation. They set up vaccine and OMS programs, they created ports and infrastructure and pressured some government into being a bit more republican (not democratic sadly, but since a third of the third world country was colonized by Bonapartists, and a half by a parlementary monarchy, i'll settle for republic). Yes, Foreign aid do have some undercover agents, but most charity have them too, and the one pushed by GiveWell the most (the Malaria one) is too.