关于援助弱小国家的雅思作文范文

　　Some people think rich countries should help poor ones by providing cash. Do you agree or disagree?一些人认为发达国家应该提供资金帮助穷国，你同意还是不同意？

　　Should rich countries help poor ones by providing cash? Views vary greatly over the past decades.

　　Some people think that special subsidies are much fairer than providing cash.Subsidies can be directly targeted to provide the things that the poor need rather than letting the poor buy what they want. The government should not be providing money that is then being spent on things like cigarettes; instead it should be spent on food, heating, or the children' s education. Some subsidies are poorly targeted but this simply shows that subsidies can be poorly implemented, not that they cannot be the solution to poverty.

　　I tend to think that.one of the reasons why poverty does not get eliminated is that it is governments who provide the subsidies that are intended to do just that.When the government provides lots of different subsidies for different things, like fuel, food, housing etc., and especially when some of them are universal, it is clear that it will never be possible to distribute the money fairly on the basis of need.

　　More importantly, most methods of attempting to eliminate poverty through state intervention are bureaucratic and inefficient and therefore are inevitably not very helpful. Providing money directly into bank accounts, on the other hand, is efficient as it is transferred electronically and can be set up to transfer without any human intervention. For the same reason it is very difficult to embezzle because it is going straight to a bank account from central government funds without passing through anyone' s hands.