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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If your population is actively starving, or it's the dead of winter you first need one, then the other.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

You need both, and if you only get aid you lose independence. Historixally, this has contributed to many countries in the Global South becoming reliant on IMF loans and other predatory relationships.