Talk:Faith-based foreign aid

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I wrote this article in attempts to answer the question "What is the impact of the contributions made to poor nations based on religions reasons?" There is not a lot of decent research specifically focusing on this topic, so I am hopeful that this article will help.

When I compiled the research for this article, I noticed that many of the effects of faith-based aid, whether postive or not, tended to be similar to that of good-old-fashoined government aid. The difference is that the government aid has a focus on improving the entire country, and faith-based aid tends to be more focused and less suseptable to corruption. At the same time, aid given for religious reasons seemed to have a stronger impact on the culture-- both postivie and negative. I enjoyed writing this article because faith-based aid is so much more emotionally provocative and interesting to learn about. Arkman87 03:43, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Different faiths in Nepal

Thanks for this article -
I worked in Nepal from 1995-2004, firstly with a Christian organisation and secondly with a secular one. Nepal is largely a Hindu country.
I agree that, faith-based agencies can provide useful health and other sector services, and apparently do so with less corruption than I saw in the government sector, and less waste than I saw in the humanitarian sector...
--89.241.217.198 (talk) 13:52, 22 November 2007 (UTC)