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Impact in terms of what? Alleviating suffering or helping to fix the institutions whose brokenness has let the problems fester?
by grandalf 9y ago
Impact in terms of what? Alleviating suffering or helping to fix the institutions whose brokenness has let the problems fester?
- TTPrograms 9y agoAlleviating suffering over the long term, which includes fixing institutions when it's appropriate.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoThose two things feed into each other. Basic health increases the ability of a populace to fix institutions. You act like "fixing" the political institutions in a foreign country is some trivial thing, as if people haven't been trying and failing to make interventions like that for a hundred years. I think the hypothesis of: make healthcare, credit, etc widely available, and the political landscape will change much more probable than the counter hypothesis: fix the political landscape through some intervention and healthcare, credit, etc will follow.