On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:35 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote: [...]
World Bank and Donors need to wake up, stop choking and killing the developing world slowly. Seriously we need to start thinking of ways to start a process of dialogue with Donor Communities and World Bank officials--minus govt officials and politicians.
WB and donors won't - it's not in their interests. It's the developing world that needs to wake up. What we need is responsible and accountable governance, run by people with a mindset that will reduce our reliance on aid, opting instead for trade. People who understand that western aid actually does more harm than good. Remember the structural adjustment programmes that brought us to our knees. The money we were losing to corruption then could have gone a long way in empowering the same people these programmes impoverished in the end. There's a lot of info pointing to the failure of aid to uplift the situation of the common man. http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj29n3/cj29n3-1.pdf http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/ForeignAid.html - Great references to read more on this http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23927633-western-aid-now-does... http://www.dambisamoyo.com/books/?book=dead-aid And there's tons more. I'm digging for some article somewhere that pointed to Rwanda's decreasing reliance on aid which should be a lesson for us and others. Regards, Steve