The campaign to convict and remove President Donald Trump in the Senate hinges on delays in disbursing US aid to Ukraine.
Congress has devoted a hundred times more attention to the timing of aid to Ukraine than to its effectiveness.
A 2002 American Economic Review analysis concluded that "Increases in [foreign] aid are associated with contemporaneous increases in corruption" and that "Corruption is positively correlated with aid received from the United States."
Then-President George W. Bush promised to reform foreign aid that year, declaring, "I think it makes no sense to give aid money to countries that are corrupt." Regardless, the Bush administration continued delivering billions of dollars in handouts to many of the world's most corrupt regimes.
Recognizing the failure of past US aid efforts, proclaimed at the United Nations in 2010 that the US government is "Leading a global effort to combat corruption." The following year, congressional Republicans sought to restrict foreign aid to fraud-ridden foreign regimes.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wailed that restricting handouts to nations that fail anti-corruption tests "Has the potential to affect a staggering number of needy aid recipients."
Since the end of the Soviet Union, the US has provided more than $6 billion in aid to Ukraine.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/january/29/impeachment-s-biggest-absurdity-our-toxic-fixation-on-useless-and-corrupting-ukraine-aid/
Congress has devoted a hundred times more attention to the timing of aid to Ukraine than to its effectiveness.
A 2002 American Economic Review analysis concluded that "Increases in [foreign] aid are associated with contemporaneous increases in corruption" and that "Corruption is positively correlated with aid received from the United States."
Then-President George W. Bush promised to reform foreign aid that year, declaring, "I think it makes no sense to give aid money to countries that are corrupt." Regardless, the Bush administration continued delivering billions of dollars in handouts to many of the world's most corrupt regimes.
Recognizing the failure of past US aid efforts, proclaimed at the United Nations in 2010 that the US government is "Leading a global effort to combat corruption." The following year, congressional Republicans sought to restrict foreign aid to fraud-ridden foreign regimes.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wailed that restricting handouts to nations that fail anti-corruption tests "Has the potential to affect a staggering number of needy aid recipients."
Since the end of the Soviet Union, the US has provided more than $6 billion in aid to Ukraine.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/january/29/impeachment-s-biggest-absurdity-our-toxic-fixation-on-useless-and-corrupting-ukraine-aid/
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