The west has given $23T in aid since the 1970s. The bullet isn't even made from water, let alone silver. One reason, according to William Easterly in his book

The west has given $23T in aid since the 1970s. The bullet isn't even made from water, let alone silver. One reason, according to William Easterly in his book "The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" it is because the aid tries to meet the goals of the givers, not the recipients. This kind of scheme is more of the solution Easterly proposes, just give people money and see what they come up with, rather than creating schemes that attempt to implement a solution dreamed up in a nice office or by Bob Geldof shouting "do something" [1] http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=638 http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=63...