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Foreign Aid Fuels Terror

Aliheydar Rzayev, Ph.D. - 5/31/2005

Destabilization of the most important subjects of world political and economic systems could become the acts of terrors, paralyzing the will of rulers and sowing horror among the population. As it was noted by V.Slutsker, at the present we can develop three main causes of the sharp increase of terrorist activity which is closely interconnected each with others. The first is the ecological problem. Second is the democragraphic problem, which is tightly connected with the abovementioned ecological safety: it is the not simply explosive increase in the population, but also the asymmetric increase, when some regions are overpopulated, but others, such as Europe, become less populated.

The third key problem is connected with this: the asymmetry of economic growth. Although after the First World War there was a hypothesis that gradually the difference between the countries will be smoothed and economic development will become all over the world, today the rich countries become wealthier and the poor become even poorer.

A sharp increase in the ecological expenditures, expenditures for the rehabilitation of nature causes reduction in the profitability of many businesses, and demographic increase in the developing countries, where is impossibility to ensure to the new generation either the worthy conditions for life or necessary training of personnel causes the social and economical tensions.

Investments in human capital are high expenditures, which the developing countries cannot allow. Thus they generate the phenomenon of economic differences because if the people are illiterate and unskilled, then they may not be ready to the new working conditions, but would be good candidates for need aid which the government can abuse.

All this creates the phenomenon of strengthening of differences not simply in current levels of wealth, but, most important, in the rates of economic growth.

When some countries are developed rapidly, while others slowly, these differences are aggravated.

International institutions trying to provide aid merely aggravate the problem, which in turn causes terrorism.