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Commenter: Foreign aid should aim to make countries self-sufficient
Summary
A meeting participant said foreign aid should ultimately end once recipient countries achieve self-sufficiency, citing South Korea as a model and noting it is now an aid donor and one of the world's largest economies.
Commenter, a meeting participant, said foreign aid should be structured so that recipient countries eventually no longer need it, citing South Korea as an example.
"The best foreign aid is foreign aid where at some point that country doesn't need it anymore because now they're self sufficient," the commenter said, later adding, "Today, it is an aid donor and the ninth or tenth largest economy in the world."
The speaker contrasted South Korea with North Korea, saying South Korea "was once poorer than North Korea" and became an aid-dependent nation before transitioning to a donor. The remarks framed self-sufficiency as an explicit goal for foreign-aid programs.
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