> Is there something I don’t know? How do you know that the people and countries dependent on this aid were also not working on making themselves less dependen

> Is there something I don’t know? How do you know that the people and countries dependent on this aid were also not working on making themselves less dependent? Are you aware that poverty is decreasing world wide and many countries have successfully developed over the last several decades? How do you know that USAID did not accelerate this processes by helping take care of vulnerable people, so the less vulnerable would have more resources to develop faster?