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Rolling Stone : Mar 10, 2006
Bush's Fake Aid
The president's $5 billion program does more for foreign banks than the needy
In March 2002, with one war raging in Afghanistan and another looming
in Iraq, President Bush announced
Keith,
Looking at is this way, we can be happy that US aid per capita is
much lower than many other developed economies. It is apart from
this, a shame to use the little that they give, in the way they do it.
Hakan
At 17:39 05/06/2006, you wrote:
Well, I'm by no means an expert, but I have
maybe the Asian counries are cutting back on their aid to the US.
Hakan Falk wrote:
Keith,
Looking at is this way, we can be happy that US aid per capita is
much lower than many other developed economies. It is apart from
this, a shame to use the little that they give, in the way they do it.
When I worked for a US Gov't aid agency, one of my first web jobs was to
put together an online map showing hoe US aid benefited each state so
the representatives could use it to show that most of the money flowed
back to the US.
The agency commisioned a survey: Most Americans believed that
Mike,
This was very interesting to hear, because it show how systematic
it was/is. I had some insight in foreign aid from Sweden and some
other donor countries, which have 10 to 20 times higher part of GDP
than US. One of the holy principles is that it should be spent on the
best value for the
I used to know some Swedish guys - was the group SETA? or SEDA? The did
good work.
Hakan Falk wrote:
Mike,
This was very interesting to hear, because it show how systematic
it was/is. I had some insight in foreign aid from Sweden and some
other donor countries, which have 10 to 20 times
Mike,
The name is SIDA and it is the government group for foreign aid. Many
years ago (around 30), before I moved out of Sweden, I participated
in some work.
Hakan
At 19:20 06/06/2006, you wrote:
I used to know some Swedish guys - was the group SETA? or SEDA? The did
good work.
Hakan Falk
That's it. I went to some meetings with them. I thought their people
were nop notch.
-Weaver
Hakan Falk wrote:
Mike,
The name is SIDA and it is the government group for foreign aid. Many
years ago (around 30), before I moved out of Sweden, I participated
in some work.
Hakan
At 19:20
Yeah,
pretty interesting for a Christian Nation to be so chintzy. This is
not to say I agree with how our current aid is doled out, mostly I don't.
But in my career I did see some wonderful projects that changed lives -
it can work.
Another interesting thing is that when I was in the field I
Hi Mike, Hakan and all
It can be done well and how to do it isn't a mystery, as at SIDA and
a few others and as Mike describes it in his second stint. The church
aid groups work the same way (not tied to spreading religion), so do
many of the other groups. But bi-lateral government aid is
Yeah,
pretty interesting for a Christian Nation to be so chintzy. This is
not to say I agree with how our current aid is doled out, mostly I don't.
But in my career I did see some wonderful projects that changed lives -
it can work.
Another interesting thing is that when I was in the field I
Well, I'm by no means an expert, but I have worked quite a bit in the
foreign aid field.
It wasn't a total failure by any means, but I'd say out failures
outweighed our successes.
My father, who is a PhD in Development Economics, and was known as a
radical for such dangerous ideas
as arguing
Well, I'm by no means an expert, but I have worked quite a bit in the
foreign aid field.
It wasn't a total failure by any means, but I'd say out failures
outweighed our successes.
On the other hand, I suppose you could say that very much of it is a
great success, since so much foreign aid is
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