alphaQuad <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation
> and malnutrition globally by 2015

  That's a completely naive and unrealistic assertion. Charity only makes
the problems in Africa worse. Not only it increases dependency on foreign
charity as well as increasing corruption, it also kills local small
entrepreneurship, worsening the economical problems in the long run.
It's the proverbial fish-instead-of-fishing-rod problem, at a huge scale.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20071123_bono.shtml
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html

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