RE: Atheist Evangelism
November 2, 2023 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2023 at 12:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm sure we'd find some other way to keep score, but it would be nice if money weren't the only thing standing between people and dying of starvation.
So, back in 07, a huge charity called CARE passed up 45Musd in funding for their food aid program because, according to them, they found that it was actually harming, rather than helping, the target population. More recently, researchers have tried to nail down the specifics of whether or not food aid helps and if so, what kind - using nigeria as the example. They get alot of food aid. In their case, they found that food aid actually -did- help, but only in a very specific way that I doubt anyone would imagine beforehand. Basically, it boiled down to whether they could manipulate the (local)price of cereal grains to create a differential between what they called grain producing and grain consuming families. Positing that, since the poor are often concentrated in rural areas (and very often work in food production - the universe loves irony) if they could drive the price down it would not hurt one group of poor people as much as it helped the other. Yet again...robbing the poor, to help the poor.
Not that this matters much when all aid is suspended due to diversion, ofc.
So, back in 07, a huge charity called CARE passed up 45Musd in funding for their food aid program because, according to them, they found that it was actually harming, rather than helping, the target population. More recently, researchers have tried to nail down the specifics of whether or not food aid helps and if so, what kind - using nigeria as the example. They get alot of food aid. In their case, they found that food aid actually -did- help, but only in a very specific way that I doubt anyone would imagine beforehand. Basically, it boiled down to whether they could manipulate the (local)price of cereal grains to create a differential between what they called grain producing and grain consuming families. Positing that, since the poor are often concentrated in rural areas (and very often work in food production - the universe loves irony) if they could drive the price down it would not hurt one group of poor people as much as it helped the other. Yet again...robbing the poor, to help the poor.
Not that this matters much when all aid is suspended due to diversion, ofc.
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