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Don't you have it exactly backwards? I've heard (from people like Andrew Mwenda) that say that Western aid to African governments ends up not helping the citiz
by nostromo 13y ago
Don't you have it exactly backwards?
I've heard (from people like Andrew Mwenda) that say that Western aid to African governments ends up not helping the citizenry and just props up bad governments.
Aid that completely bypasses corrupt governments and goes directly to citizens seems to be less likely to be stolen by middlemen. If you look at Give Directly (http://www.givedirectly.org/faqs.php http://www.givedirectly.org/faqs.php) they send cash directly to a person's cell phone, and their audits have shown very little money being lost to corruption.
- yaix 13y agoMy guess is that companies will offer to "write nice proposals" for groups of poor people to get free money and then charge 30% as a fee from them.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Aid that completely bypasses corrupt governments and goes directly to citizens seems to be less likely to be stolen by middlemen. Pretty much by definition it is less likely to be stolen by middlemen, since anyone stealing aid that goes directly to individuals without going through middlemen is not a middleman. Whether it is less likely to be stolen -- or even whether it is less likely to be stolen by the government -- is a completely different story.