On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Petros <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:
From: "Aryan Ameri" <info@ameri.me>
charity creates dependency and stifles innovation and development. If you ask me, one of the major reasons why we still have poverty and hunger in this world is due to the left's need to "save the world".
http://www.hollows.org.au/our-work
Please explain your approach to overcome the problem,
and why donating money for eye operations preserves poverty and hunger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_And_Melinda_Gates_Foundation It's worth reading the above URL about what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does. No mention of fixing vision, but it's mostly about health issues. Sick people can't contribute to the economy. Also the Gates Foundation "will give hundreds of millions of dollars in the next few years to programs aimed at encouraging saving by the world's poor", that's something that Libertarians would probably be happy with if they actually believed what they claimed. On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, "Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS)" <slav.pidgorny@anz.com> wrote:
Check out work of Dambisa Moyo. This one is a good starting point: "Why Foreign Aid Is Hurting Africa " (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123758895999200083.html). Good intentions don't guarantee good outcomes, especially when the outcome is not as immediate and tangible as that of eye surgery.
As with any difficult task there are ways of doing it badly. However the things that are described in the WSJ article don't seem correlated with what the Gates Foundation has been doing. Aryan and Pidgorny, could you please do a little research before replying in future. Just posting dogma and catch-phrases isn't useful. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/