(International) Aid ... what is it good for?

Aid (...) is a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another, given at least partly with the objective of benefiting the recipient country.[1] It may have other functions as well: it may be given as a signal of diplomatic approval, or to strengthen a military ally, to reward a government for behaviour desired by the donor, to extend the donor's cultural influence, to provide infrastructure needed by the donor for resource extraction from the recipient country, or to gain other kinds of commercial access.[2] Humanitarianism and altruism are, nevertheless, significant motivations for the giving of aid.

(...)

Aid existed in ancient times. More recently, in the nineteenth century, some private aid flowed from the Western countries to the rest of the world; missionary schools are an example. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aid from governments was tiny compared to present levels, consisting mostly of occasional humanitarian crisis relief. Some transfers that would now be counted as aid, however, came under the purview of colonial office budgets. It was at the end of World War Two, in the contexts of European reconstruction, decolonisation, and cold war rivalry for influence in the third world, that aid became the major activity that it is today.

but debt does not equal starvation, does it?

It's like looking at the slum children in India and feeling sorry for them because they are limited by a cast system when I'm sure they don't sit and cry everyday like the aid adverts show for people in Africa...It's not our place to say they can't be satisfied because they don't have the privileges we do. I'm probably not making my point come across correctly but it's 5am and sleep will not come.

In Vanuatu I hated seeing the parents of kids with un-paid school fees put money into the collection plate at church.

^^
It would work, except for the fact that people become mad with power and abuse it. Also, the everyone gets the same pay thing has obvious flaws

If everyone gets the same pay, then they have no motive to work harder, so naturally, people will start being lazy. Not to mention hardly anyone will try for harder jobs such as a surgeon because they'd get paid the same working at a register.

Actually it would foster people to only do jobs they love, follow their passions. Would foster respect for those that work in high educational jobs such as doctors, teach humility and would rid monetary based class systems. The only class system would be, are you working? are you in education? are you contributing in any other way? if not then you have no respect for your community or fellow man. This is the next step before ridding the world of our money system as EoP has mentioned.