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posted by kpnil at 7:34 AM
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
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The eradication of poverty has become a powerful instrument of intervention in the so-called "Third World". Where are these politics leading to? It makes me want to join the exasperated Guatemalan leader who once said "Leave the poor alone and stop going on about development".
Paula
11:37 AM
Oi! It's good to hear from you girl!
Africa's dependance upon aid seems to grow each day and despite the worldwide mobilisation, things doesn't seem to change. I always take one step back when I see the World Bank, for example, taking the eradication of poverty as its first priority... What's behind it?
There's a french author called Serge Latouche who says that poverty is nothing but a concept created by the occidental world. He's kinda radical but some of his arguments does make a lot of sense(he also mentions the Guatemalan leader!). According to Latouche, "Africa was self-sufficient in food until the 1960s when the great wave of development began. Imperialism, growth economics and globalisation destroyed that self-sufficiency and make African societies more dependent by the day. Water may not have come out of a tap in the past, but most of it was drinkable until industrial waste arrived to pollute it". (http://mondediplo.com/2004/11/14latouche)
So, what's after AID?
2:06 PM
All these poor people are getting in the way of PROGRESS.
8:26 AM
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