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External aid can't, but external investment can. The greatest reduction in extreme poverty in human history happened in China starting in the second half of las
by Brusco_RF 3y ago
External aid can't, but external investment can. The greatest reduction in extreme poverty in human history happened in China starting in the second half of last century continuing to the present. It was a result of the West building factories and outsourcing labor there.
Unfortunately a prerequisite for foreign investment is political stability. Nobody is going to build a factory in a war zone, which is why Sudan Somalia and Ethiopia look the way they do.
It's a delicate situation and I don't think anyone really knows the best way to help.
- bllguo 3y ago> It's a delicate situation and I don't think anyone really knows the best way to help. does the answer not follow immediately from what youre saying? economic aid, no strings attached. no efforts towards regime change, no political pressure or ideological motivations. that's all. of course this is not possible in a world with the US as hegemon, but the solution is hardly a secret.
- Gud 3y agoWho will you give this aid to? Realistically, it would be given to the government right? Do you think it would be spent wisely, considering most(if not all) poor countries are run by extremely corrupt governments.
- bllguo 3y agoif you don't think they can spend it wisely then don't give it to them.. this is an orthogonal discussion to the point of "don't destabilize other nations by trying to influence their political systems under the guise of providing aid"