Foreign aid shouldn't be seen as a controversial topic, but it tends to be. No one agrees that just throwing money at a problem makes it better, so why do we take this approach with countries? There have been many failures when it comes to foreign aid, and people use that as an excuse to argue for the end of foreign aid. As William Easterly points out, the reason that foreign aid fails is because the countries that fail don't have good existing policies in place to help allocate the aid that they receive. Most countries that get the aid are failures, but Easterly comments that they aren't called failures because the integrity of the foreign aid program would be compromised if the public knew how much foreign aid is unaccounted for. Governments and NGO's need to be more selective in giving aid in order to create a system where countries will be rewarded for their dedication to progress. Selectivity may seem cruel, but countries begging for money is even crueler because it debases their people. As this picture from Humans of New York points out, it's horrible to demote a whole country to their aid status because what they need is some faith and investment. Aid doesn't always work, and there needs to be something more than a one size fits all policy, but there's hope for every country with the right amount of legislative change.