Look, anybody who has actually done their homework and looked at the international development industry with any seriousness knows that there are problems, yes, but that the international community helps more than it hurts. Naysayers by and large don't know what they're talking about because they haven't actually looked at African case studies with an analytic eye at all.
It's a common perception among the uneducated on the subject that Africa is mired in interminable ethnic wars, poverty, and disease and that nothing has improved in the past twenty years - and that is a dead wrong assumption.
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Feb-08-2008 01:20
MrJiveBoJingles
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.
quote:
Originally posted by Krypton
Interventionism...
Uhh, I don't think anyone has been discussing "interventionism" here. The discussion was about whether certain types of aid are good for Africa...
Feb-08-2008 01:20
Lebezniatnikov
Stupidity Annoys Me
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: DC
quote:
Originally posted by Krypton
Interventionism...
This is the most simplistic statement I've ever read in my life. Development is interventionist? And furthermore, if intervention is universally evil, why did the US get involved in WWII? Why bail out the Mexican economy in 1994? Why send NATO planes into Bosnia?
Did we do the right thing by turning away from Rwanda? Darfur? Liberia? Sierra Leone?
More fundamentally, and this is no longer directed primarily at Krypton, but are black lives worthy of Western intervention, or does the threshold for moral responsibility lie in the threat to white Europeans or Americans?
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Feb-08-2008 01:24
Fast Turtle
Runs Quick
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: At The Party House HP: 9302
More effort should be made to exploit the cheap labor that can be found within Africa, instead of relying so heavily on Asia.
Originally posted by Masonious
you win again dude - and nice move shoving the whole i figured out how to order pizza thing in my face. i tried that 4 and a half months ago and woke up with a Taiwanese transvestite but to Ygrene it's just, "anoother day in the life, noooo biggieee".
Feb-08-2008 03:18
Hand Signal X
tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: edmonton ab, canada
quote:
Originally posted by Fast Turtle
More effort should be made to exploit the cheap labor that can be found within Africa, instead of relying so heavily on Asia.
I like it. We could call it: ethical slavery.
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I wish I were 日本語.
Feb-08-2008 05:33
UmmiE
The Cure And The Cause
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Brampton
LOL
Feb-08-2008 05:34
Krypton
83.798 g/6.022x10^23
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
quote:
Originally posted by Fast Turtle
More effort should be made to exploit the cheap labor that can be found within Africa, instead of relying so heavily on Asia.
This is what I'm thinking...
Let them develop themselves. Help them with trade. Build factories to get people working. The key is to get everyone working.
The key question here is..."How can native agriculture and other sectors compete against subsidized donations?
