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Foreign aid or international aid is when one country helps another country through some form of donation. Usually this refers to helping out a country that has a special need caused by poverty, underdevelopment, natural disasters, armed conflicts, etc.

The main receivers of foreign aid are developing nations ( third world countries), and the main contributors are the industrialized countries.

The United States is the world's largest contributor of foreign aid. However, critics charge that the United States donates a relatively small amount of foreign aid as a percentage of its GDP when compared with other industrialized countries.


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