Posted by: Nas March 18, 2008
Nepal n Tibet both shud be part of China
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Riten bro, yes the international alms have fed our people but those alms have inturn kept us begging for more alms to survive. I see a clear insult to Nepalese people, I don't know why you don't see it that way.  When has begging ever been a matter of dignity and pride ?

"Analysis by William Easterly, and Raghuram Rajan at the International Monetary Fund, indicates zero impact from Western aid on growth in poor nations."

Has Foreign Aid Influenced Economic Freedom?

"For more than 50 years individual countries and international agencies have given aid to third world countries to promote economic development, yet poverty still persists in many recipient nations. This raises two important questions. Does the receipt of aid lead to increases or decreases in economic freedom, and are increases in economic freedom rewarded with more aid or punished with reduced aid?

The failure of aid to directly promote development in impoverished countries is well documented. Boone (1996), Vasquez (1998), Easterly and Levine (2001), and Ovaska (2003) all find that development aid fails to systematically improve growth rates. Easterly (2001) summarizes World Bank aid policies that have failed to promote development. Although aid has generally failed to promote development.

P.T. Bauer long contended that intergovernmental aid increases the size and scope of recipient governments, contributes to the politicization of life, negatively impacts economic performance, and is, on balance, an anti-market force (1971, 1978, 1984, 1990).2 His long list of anti-market policies to which aid contributes includes expulsion of productive groups, suppression of private trade, restriction of the inflow of foreign capital, confiscation of property, forced collectivization, takeover of foreign enterprises, discouragement of agriculture, support of unviable projects, and import substitution (1990, 46). "

One day I am hoping our generation will get rid of our beggar mentality like the Iranians have.

http://www.petitiononline.com/NoUSAID/petition.html

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