Insanity is often all around me

Based on:
The White Man Man's Burden
How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and
So Little Good (The Penguin Press)



The two tragedies of the world's poor
The first tragedy: Jeffrey Sachs notes that 30,000
children die every day from extreme poverty -- for
example, 1.8 million annual child deaths from diarrhea
that could be prevented with 10-cent doses of oral
rehydration therapy.
But there is a second tragedy: that the West already
spent $2.3 trillion on foreign aid over 5 decades and
babies with diarrhea are still not getting the 10 10-cent
doses of oral rehydration therapy.
This is the scandal of our generation - that money
meant for the desperate poor did not reach

Planners' favorite answer: the 100% solution

JFK advisor Walt Rostow called for doubling foreign aid
in 1960
World Bank President McNamara called for doubling aid
in 1973.
WB called for doubling aid with end of Cold War in 1990.
Sachs, Blair, Brown call for doubling foreign aid in 2005,
and G G-8 Summit in July 2005 agreed to double aid to
Africa.
All the incentives in aid agencies are for spending
money! Obsession with amount spent substitutes for
CIAO on whether that money actually reaches the poor,
so the second tragedy continues unabated.

These global plans just keep repeating the same mistakes