Poor countries don't need or want 'our' money. They need 'us' to get out of the way and stop exploiting them. Poor countries have been funding (involuntarily) rich countries for roughly five centuries. Not the other way around.

@kennethyoung7564

2 жыл бұрын

That would be a start. I know the global North makes a net profit of 3 trillion a year. I am American, and when ever I suggest that the rich countries are developed by the poor, many people become pissed. American exceptionalism for you! I think India has the right idea with a culture of local mobilization and decentralization.

Thank you for drawing the distinction between development aid and emergency aid. Accountability on the domestic level is necessary, as we do need to teach people how to demand more from their leaders and their governments. But I do not believe this conflicts with giving aid in general. Implementing a tax structure takes a lot of time, time that a lot of the most vulnerable people in the world do not have. Rather than limiting aid, we should be defining it such that the money given goes directly to certain programs and practices. Making it a matter of taxes versus aid is oversimplifying the issue.

@teyak13

3 жыл бұрын

@audrey pard except that lifting people out of poverty has proven to be the most effective form of managing population growth. The more well-off people are, the less children they have because they can reasonably expect all of the children they have to survive to adulthood. By all means, we should definitely help fund contraceptives, but people won't use them if they feel they need to keep having children

@teyak13

3 жыл бұрын

@audrey pard but that backfired in a few generations because the taxable base consisted of such fewer people than the elderly population these workers were supporting. That's why China has a 2 children per family policy now. The birth rate drops to near 2 once education is improved, leading to a stagnant population

Thanks you for good topics interested to be integrated according to understanding of supported in this drawing the distinction between development aid and emergency aid .accountability on the domestic level is necessary, as we do to teach people how to understanding and to demand more from their leaders

I commend you man, thank you soooooo much. If wasn't for you I would have been dead in my assement.

Are the sources of the data available somewhere to cite? Especially the UN conference on trade and investment?

So nice I really like ur thought from🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

Real talk

On the spot.

It is a whole lot more complex than just taxation. This is terribly oversimplified!

@paTrik8973

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Hahaah! How does a dude like that even get on stage?!

@Erwana1985

2 жыл бұрын

well yes, but he took one out of many points and highlighted the one he thinks is most important in a way that is understandable. Many researchers have lots of answers, but are unable to communicate them out to the world so its understood.. Whats the point then?

Great Ted Talk!

good lecture from korea

wow ~

2:22 St Helena's airport is far from useless, windshear is a challenge when landing there but that's all. The airport is still fully functional. This guy thinks it's impossible to land at an airport that sometimes has wind shear, he is completely wrong and he shouldn't be talking about something that he has no understanding of. Buying into the smear campaign against St Helena's airport doesn't mean you actually understand anything about aviation and the man speaking has obviously demonstrated that. For a complete failure of an airport it's rather odd that it is still operating 6 years later. It's almost as if human ingenuity has the capability of overcoming challenges. I'd recommend watching wendover productions video on St Helena airport. The video is called the world's most useful airport. Never let doubters like that man stop you from doing what everyone thinks is impossible.

They don't care that its someone else's tax dollars though 🙄 and that's F'd up. See, Americans actually care - we care a lot! The problem is, we are FORCED to fund corruption, not only in America, BUT AROUND THE WORLD! As someone who cares and wants to help people, this is really frustrating to hear - that people just don't care about *my* tax dollars. And what causes accountability is making the leaders accountable to their people, when these governments mooch off the international aid system, they could care less what their people want and need, or what their living conditions are. Rather, they are more concerned with what the international cog of governments want, and then sell out the needs of their people. Aid may have been a good idea, with good intentions, but now we're seeing the long term effects, and the main people who have benefited, are the tyrannical governments and corrupt politicians.

@natashanonnattive4818

Жыл бұрын

We need to stop joining bad system and lose our voice, the 1st Amendment doesn't have any authority in these

People don't take sincere responsibility for tax-funded programs. The social effects claimed here are not substantiated in case studies (and common sense).

OK.. Don't blame the giver, blame the person that received it. You can't change culture. Child slavery is dominant in these countries. TED audience lets all blame US CONSTANTLY

@simetric6551

3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree. Africa has received 200 times more money than Europe with the Marshall Plan (Inflation adjusted).

@moira4784

3 жыл бұрын

The complexity of aid is terrible. Just because you think they are being given money it doesn't mean the money is free always. There are terms and conditions attached to aid. Dubious political interests. And now you have corrupt governments and it's a whole mess.

@awesomealie8179

3 жыл бұрын

@@moira4784 SF has homelessness and has increase although money is given. It is not a great incentive if its is used to change how people live. A great incentive is making that person work for it. Foreign aids are tainted within that country's corruption.

@rouskeycarpel1436

3 жыл бұрын

You blame both.Who wouldn’t receive foreign economic aid if other countries are willing to give it to them.If western countries voted to cut off all economic aid there’s nothing the smaller countries could do to fight it.

@spatosky8744

3 жыл бұрын

@@simetric6551 this money is mostly received in the form of structural adjustment programs and poverty-projects which are essentially loans. High interest rates are attached. In order to meet conditions for these loans, the IMF and World Bank impose developing nations to adopt free-market/neoliberal policies like: economic austerity, deregulation of environmental and labor conditions, privatization, and an export-oriented economy. These developmental loans are loans which trap nations in debt, the worst of which are called highly indebted poor countries, or HIPCs. Look up dependence theory, it's all done so developing countries become reaource factories for the developing world of consumerism

INDIAN

@ailafen8783

3 жыл бұрын

NO

@aneehadesilva

3 жыл бұрын

NO

Nothing new.

Huh,India gives aid to Nepal,what are you talking about son!!

@diwakarchettri5256

3 жыл бұрын

We give back India more than we receive by purchasing crores of rupees worth of goods....ON A DAILY BASIS! Ask your Modi chacha.

You’re trying to explain colonial poverty from a detached perspective. There are colonies in which progress was linked to graft, for whom graft was deeply woven into their post-colonial culture. You can look at the Chewa people in Mozambique and Malawi for an example. The Chewa in Mozambique were colonized by the Portuguese-the Chewa in Malawi by the British. They are ethnically one people, for whom integrity can mean two very different things. While graft is an issue in Mozambique-it’s a fixture in Malawi. And it’s hard to separate the system of patronage established by the British from that distinction. Essentially: the British incentivized obedience and graft, then left…sort of. So when you’re talking about dysfunctional incentives, repairing them may begin with understanding how hopeless progress through education, integrity, and excellence has actually become in many former colonies. Even if you become excellent at what you do there - depending on your area of expertise - you may have educated/achieved yourself out of a fit within the larger workforce or, moreover, its system of patronage. That’s the lingering cultural causation behind a Zuma. Independence cost each of these nations something. Some in the toll of recovering from the backlash against armed rebellion. Others in the toll of never making a clean break with the wrote complicity and graft that characterized their colonial periods. Even now, ‘foreign aid” often incentivizes nothing more than obedience to organizational objectives-as opposed to genuine intellectual and character development. And Western businesses are often paying for freedom from oversight, to people who expect freedom from oversight: thus incentivizing graft. Until “Western aid” actually goes to incentivize excellence, you can probably still expect it to produce nothing more than wrote compliance and graft. Another perspective, for what it’s worth...