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July 27th 05, 04:54 PM
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:34:57 GMT, David wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:42:21 -0500, wrote: Throwing money and food to other countries,some countries,results in the rulers of those countries siphoning off the food and money for things that does not help those countries. cuhulin Mr. Bono circumvents the corrupt state authorities by using NGOs to administer the help. Firstly, in a thoroughly corrupt country (like most countries in Africa are), corruption is a way of life, hence even NGOs will be, and indeed are, corrupt and inefficient - they are not staffed with angels, but with real, local people. But this is not the most important point. The main point is that throwing money to the poor has never made them rich in the long term. It just makes the situation worse by making them dependent on handouts. To make them truly independent and thus conquer poverty, you need to get the economy going and teach the people how to fend for themselves. But in order to get economy going, you need to have a legal system and a law obiding society. In most African countries where you have violent thugs running berserk, corrupt governments, inefficient legal system and law enforcement, you can't start a business and no sensible foreign company will invest there either. And that's precisely why there is poverty in Africa. Peter Newman |
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