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Help and Cooperation

Help and Cooperation 

It is easy to wri­te and talk abo­ut what kinds of aid to Afri­ca don’t work. I’ve done that seve­ral times alre­ady 😊 Except, using con­struc­ti­ve cri­ti­cism is a dif­fe­rent cup of tea but let’s give it a try! 

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poverty_michael_matheson_miller

What sort of help does more harm than good? 

„People here are not stu­pid, they are discon­nec­ted from the glo­bal tra­de. That’s all” – says the Gha­na­ian busi­ness­man, the suc­cess­ful man. The movie abo­ut the prin­ci­pal errors in the inter­na­tio­nal help for Afri­ca was rejec­ted by the ONZ festi­val. Pro­vo­ca­ti­ve? Ico­noc­la­stic? On seve­ral dozen of festi­vals he achie­ved seve­ral or so awards.

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linda-polman-crisis-caravan

Water in aeroplanes to Africa? 

“You finan­cial­ly sup­port your far­mers, wor­king at the cot­ton plan­ta­tion, then you deli­ver us a worn clo­thing – said one of the Eco­no­mist from Sene­gal abo­ut the cam­pa­ign to col­lect clo­thes for the poor coun­tries in rich countries. 

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the-white-man-burden-william-easterly

Give Up on Utopian Fantasies 

“A medi­ci­ne that could pre­vent half of all mala­­ria-rela­­ted deaths costs only 12 cents per dose.” How is it possi­ble that “the West has spent USD 2.3 tril­lion on fore­ign aid over the past 50 years, yet has failed to pro­vi­de poor chil­dren with a medi­ci­ne costing just 12 cents?”

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adam-leszczynski-eksperymenty-na-biednych

What sort of help does not work? 

The World Bank men­tions „the poor and mar­gi­na­li­zed people” as a gro­up of „sta­ke­hol­ders” taking part in a major inter­na­tio­nal aid pro­ject. Is this some kind of a joke, do they mean what they say? Do nati­ve Afri­cans have any­thing to say in the matter?

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Blog o kra­jach Afryki 
Help and Cooperation

Help and Cooperation 

It is easy to wri­te and talk abo­ut what kinds of aid to Afri­ca don’t work. I’ve done that seve­ral times alre­ady 😊 Except, using con­struc­ti­ve cri­ti­cism is a dif­fe­rent cup of tea but let’s give it a try! 

Read more 
poverty_michael_matheson_miller

What sort of help does more harm than good? 

„People here are not stu­pid, they are discon­nec­ted from the glo­bal tra­de. That’s all” – says the Gha­na­ian busi­ness­man, the suc­cess­ful man. The movie abo­ut the prin­ci­pal errors in the inter­na­tio­nal help for Afri­ca was rejec­ted by the ONZ festi­val. Pro­vo­ca­ti­ve? Ico­noc­la­stic? On seve­ral dozen of festi­vals he achie­ved seve­ral or so awards.

Read more 
linda-polman-crisis-caravan

Water in aeroplanes to Africa? 

“You finan­cial­ly sup­port your far­mers, wor­king at the cot­ton plan­ta­tion, then you deli­ver us a worn clo­thing – said one of the Eco­no­mist from Sene­gal abo­ut the cam­pa­ign to col­lect clo­thes for the poor coun­tries in rich countries. 

Read more 
the-white-man-burden-william-easterly

Give Up on Utopian Fantasies 

“A medi­ci­ne that could pre­vent half of all mala­­ria-rela­­ted deaths costs only 12 cents per dose.” How is it possi­ble that “the West has spent USD 2.3 tril­lion on fore­ign aid over the past 50 years, yet has failed to pro­vi­de poor chil­dren with a medi­ci­ne costing just 12 cents?”

Read more 
adam-leszczynski-eksperymenty-na-biednych

What sort of help does not work? 

The World Bank men­tions „the poor and mar­gi­na­li­zed people” as a gro­up of „sta­ke­hol­ders” taking part in a major inter­na­tio­nal aid pro­ject. Is this some kind of a joke, do they mean what they say? Do nati­ve Afri­cans have any­thing to say in the matter?

Read more