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The 21 pages that link to Foreign aid, each with the reason it gives.

• RemittanceCompared with: Aid is institutionally allocated, whereas remittances are sent by individuals to chosen recipients.

• Foreign direct investmentCompared with: Unlike aid, FDI is a private investment made with an expectation of ownership returns.

• CosmopolitanismRelated: It raises questions about duties to people facing severe need abroad.

• Development economicsRelated: Its effectiveness depends on allocation, institutions, and the conditions attached to assistance.

• Modernization theoryRelated: Modernization frameworks helped justify aid programs intended to accelerate development.

• NeocolonialismRelated: Aid can serve development goals while also advancing donor interests and shaping recipient policy.

• Economic sanctionsCompared with: Aid uses economic transfers to support or influence a state rather than restrict its transactions.

• Economic developmentRelated: Aid can finance services and investment, though its effects depend on design and institutions.

• Public diplomacyCompared with: Aid can shape foreign perceptions, but delivers material support rather than communication and engagement as its defining activity.

• Economic statecraftBroader topic: Aid can reward cooperation, build influence, or strengthen a partner.

• Foreign policyRelated: Governments use assistance to support partners, address crises, and build influence.

• Aid effectivenessNarrower topic: Aid effectiveness evaluates a broad form of assistance rather than defining its effectiveness by volume.

• Economic warfareCompared with: Aid offers resources as an inducement, whereas economic warfare restricts access to them.

• Associated StatehoodRelated: Economic assistance may form part of the continuing obligations set out in an association compact.

• Eisenhower DoctrineNarrower topic: Economic and military assistance were the doctrine's principal tools.

• International Development AssociationNarrower topic: IDA is a multilateral channel for aid, though much of its support is repayable credit.

• KleptocracyRelated: Aid can be diverted or used to sustain governments that misuse public resources.

• Jeffrey SachsRelated: Sachs has defended aid as a means of financing health, infrastructure, and agricultural improvements.

• Development geographyRelated: Aid programs direct resources geographically and raise questions about effectiveness and dependency.

• Dambisa MoyoNarrower topic: Her public profile rests largely on challenging the long-term development effects of this policy instrument.

• GeoeconomicsRelated: Aid can build partnerships and influence without relying on coercive restrictions.