Having lived in SE Asia for a few years and returning to the USA late last year, I can confidently tell you that the deaths caused by slamming on the economic brakes has killed more people than COVID-19 has even with the inflated numbers left in.
While many Americans enjoyed a huge increase in EBT and Unemployment benifits, along with the stimulus money, most citizens of poor countries got little aid.
The amount of aid and the percentage of people being excluded, ensured many people have literaly starved to death. In poor countries they have fewer animals of any sort in populated areas because they were already consumed years or even decades ago.
Over 7 years of visiting then 3 years of living in the Philippines I saw no one fishing from the shore of any lake, nor river, nor ocean. The pump boats never have a big haul.
Same thing with hunting. Anything besides feral dogs and cats are hard to find. Here in the USA there are still animals that survive in large numbers because being hit by a car is less devastating on the population than hungry bellies.
https://results.usaid.gov/results/country/philippines?fiscalYear=2019
We gave $101 million to the Philippines in 2019 alone...and 2018 ($110 millon)...and 2017 ($133 million)...2016 ($152 million)...2015 ($180 million)...2014 ($159 million)
Thats a big problem, we throw money at everything. The problem is that the population is 110 million, so the amount given means nothing to the people in the street. Then theres the corruption. Over all those donations you listed buys about 2 weeks worth of rice.
The charities give a heck of a lot more. During the big earthquake in Bohol several billion poured in and disappeared. Donated goods often sat around and rotted.
Big Business, Big Government, and Big Charity are all a bad thing. Better to help on a personal level....
While in the Philippines I made mistakes, but I also learned how to help in a beneficial way. For most poor people a 24 dollar 25 Kilo sack of rice is a lot more helpful than handing the family 100 dollars in cash. The people love rice and will eat it. 25 Kilos is rice for a month for a small family. 100 Bucks and they will buy things they want and a much smaller ammount of rice.
And the politicians and crooked relief workers got the bulk of that ,money.
Same as Africa..all the billionaire daughters of presidents.
The poor...they suffer as always.