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"How to Help Poor Countries"Don't go through corrupt
governments
Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind
Subramanian have a great (but long) piece at Foreign Affairs.
... Assistance does work well, but only when the recipient countries do the right things to help themselves and have the capacity and the leadership to spend the money wisely. Some statistical evidence indicates a link between financial assistance and growth. But aid has not been associated with the sustained increases in productivity and wages that ultimately matter... That's it in a nutshell. Compassion shouldn't be measured by dollar value. Throwing more money at the problem seldom generates good results. What does it matter to have a thousand computers if there is no electrical grid and no internet connections? What's more, mix political objectives in the mix (not to mention culture clash) and the money will never go to the people who need it, only to the people who control the distribution. Foreign aid is one of the great failures of American policy because we were more interested in the appearance than the result. One one-hundreth of the money could do a thousand times more good if the politicos were removed from the equation. 
Posted: Tue - November 28, 2006 at 06:13 AM
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