# Is this really helping the poor?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-helping-the-poor/794757>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 26, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-helping-the-poor/794757 "2017-08-26T20:26:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-helping-the-poor/794757/41 "2017-08-28T23:47:56Z")

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India for many years received donations from around the world of free wheat and other foodstuffs. This destroyed their agricultural industry by driving prices into the toilet. So no in the end it doesn’t help.

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