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    The Ethics of Aid
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-06) Mamo, Abdeta; Kalbessa, Workineh(PhD)
    The ethics of aid is the central focus of this thesis. The thesis particularly examines the moral controversies on and the weaknesses of development aid. It shows how aid is highly connected to ethics from the perspectives of applied ethics. It also discusses the arguments for and against giving aid to the poor. I employed qualitative research approach. Accordingly, I have used secondary sources. Literature on aid has been dominated by politics and economics without giving attention to ethics. However, viewing aid as the mere transfer of resources from the rich countries to the poor countries is inadequate. I thus suggested that the developed countries have moral obligations to extend their hand in support of poor and vulnerable nations for the well-being and security of both themselves and others. Ethical justification should be taken into consideration when we give and receive aid. I defended the position that developed nations have a moral duty to provide aid for the developing countries within the ethical frameworks of altruism, justice, utilitarianism and the like. Keywords: Aid, Development, Development Aid, Ethics, Ethics of Aid