Accepting foreign aid puts recipient governments in the position of having to build relationships with donors instead of upholding their social contract with their citizens and responding to local needs. It essentially usurps a country’s self-determination and ability to come up with its own solutions and plans. It also doesn’t help when the majority of the World Bank’s private investments in sub-Saharan Africa go to companies that use tax havens, thus further starving poor countries of tax revenue they could use to combat poverty, as Oxfam reported in 2016.
