In a country like India or Brazil one can (and often does) always argue that funding for whichever initiative can be better spent on giving food to poor childre

In a country like India or Brazil one can (and often does) always argue that funding for whichever initiative can be better spent on giving food to poor children. Micro loans for small businesses? OLPC? English lessons in rural villages? Subsidizing cheap public transport to far flung areas that the quickly aging infrastructure doesn't properly service? How dare you propose such luxuries when children are starving on the streets!! Quick fact: the Indian government can allocate all of their budget to Feeding Poor Children and there would still be plenty of malnourished kids begging on the streets.