The reduction of US AID is a gift. An opportunity to reassert agency, self-reliance, and to eradicate those "perverse incentives". The real challenge will be to persuade our toddler-like leaders to make the paradigm shift and get more strategic and creative... will they listen though?
I think this is interesting and I would love to see a writer up of why Africa is so poor compared to the rest of the world and what this looks like going forward. If African countries can't industrialized and utilize markets to create wealth, are Africans doomed to either stay in their countries or try and move to a West that might not want them there?
Where oh where does the author expect the African countries to get the money? Please be specific. The real problem is that African countries, despite great resource wealth, are poor. There needs to be some wealth redistribution from the rich to the poor countries - at least to some extent. Keep in mind that exporting raw materials is not a pathway to real wealth (it has only worked for Middle East countries with tiny populations, which is why Nigeria cannot get rich off its oil). So, telling African governments to pay for everything is just a pipe dream. It's not happening - they don't have the money. And those saying the development banks can do it? Guess where African Development Bank gets roughly a third of its funds? Um, yep - the USA.
The reduction of US AID is a gift. An opportunity to reassert agency, self-reliance, and to eradicate those "perverse incentives". The real challenge will be to persuade our toddler-like leaders to make the paradigm shift and get more strategic and creative... will they listen though?
I think this is interesting and I would love to see a writer up of why Africa is so poor compared to the rest of the world and what this looks like going forward. If African countries can't industrialized and utilize markets to create wealth, are Africans doomed to either stay in their countries or try and move to a West that might not want them there?
Where oh where does the author expect the African countries to get the money? Please be specific. The real problem is that African countries, despite great resource wealth, are poor. There needs to be some wealth redistribution from the rich to the poor countries - at least to some extent. Keep in mind that exporting raw materials is not a pathway to real wealth (it has only worked for Middle East countries with tiny populations, which is why Nigeria cannot get rich off its oil). So, telling African governments to pay for everything is just a pipe dream. It's not happening - they don't have the money. And those saying the development banks can do it? Guess where African Development Bank gets roughly a third of its funds? Um, yep - the USA.