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Warp nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/24 09:38:
> alphaQuad <alp### [at] earthlink net> 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
>
Who said anything about "charity"?
If you invest that money into education, formation, infrastructures, and such,
you get long term benefits.
With investment instead of charity, you actualy reduce corruption. Not to say
about improving local entrepreneurship.
You improve the living quality of whole populations, making them more autonomous
and potential economic partners. You also undermine terrorism breading grounds!
Build schools, hospitals and dispensaries. Plant fields. Build water treatment
plans. Help building industries. Help improve railways and roads. Bring
electricity to comunities.
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Alain
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