Re:Stop Aiding Africa - The Daily Beast
by joel_feather on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @06:02PM
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Look it up. 700 million from the US to Africa. GDP of a country like ghana is 20 billion. Look up the rest of the numbers yourself.
Re:Stop Aiding Africa - The Daily Beast
by CWuestefeld on Saturday June 13, 2009 @08:13PM
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> Look it up.
No. You're making an extraordinary claim; the responsibility is yours to demonstrate its veracity.
> 700 million from the US to Africa Define your terms. I suspect that you're talking about one very specific type of aid from one very specific entity, e.g., direct economic aid from the US government itself. But what about aid in the form of charity from US citizens, or donated work by doctors? What about indirect aid, such as the way the US supports the UN (and other organizations like WHO), which in turn do a lot of work in Africa.
It seems I'm always seeing celebrities pontificating, news stories mentioning doctors donating time at African clinics, and media spectacles like USA for Africa. We see articles about programs aimed at reducing suffering from malaria, and at AIDS education.
It thus appears to me that much investment is being made. Can you quantitatively show otherwise?