What is Digg?Sponsored by newegg
Missed out on the best electronic deals last Black Friday? view!
newegg.com - Newegg.com's Cyber Monday Promotion has you covered. No Lines, No Crowds; Just Click and Save.
15 Comments
- travdiggsit, on 11/08/2009, -0/+8I would love it if we really could help poorer nations develop green industries and generally improve things, but the money is going to go into some corrupt officials pocket.
- quarando, on 11/08/2009, -0/+3Yes, but this is much too simplistic, there are major external geopolitical factors contributing to and arguably even causing instability and wide spread corruption throughout the 3rd world.
Simply arguing that the 3rd world just needs to get its ***** together ignores the huge challenges these countries face.
When the G20 says they want "stability" in the 3rd world, they have a very particular meaning of stability. They mean submissiveness to American and Western European economic domination without significant popular resistance. - seltaeb4, on 11/08/2009, -1/+4My money's on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- roodammy44, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2Lets not be unfair here, the money goes to a corrupt official's pocket here in the west just as much as the poorer countries.
- DubSnipe, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1There ARE poorer countries in the west too, you know...
- Princeamor, on 11/08/2009, -2/+3They need to let Ron Paul in there, he'll set them straight!
- MrSteamTank, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Depends on the country. Some poorer nations aren't as corrupt as you would imagine. Unfortunately, the big third world nations that affect the environment the most tend to be quite corrupt. Like Mexico, India, and Brazil. 8P
- MrSteamTank, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1It's not that simple. If the first world truly wants the third world to improve they will stop stealing their talent whenever it appears. Their are over 60,000 Indian doctors in North America. So India pays for (education is heavily subsidized in India) and the USA which pays very little comparatively simply takes the workers it needs.
Here in Uruguay education is quite good and it's free. Our population is 3 million yet around 600,000 educated workers have left for the first world. Chile and Argentina also suffer from this problem.
With the problems of brain drain it's hard for poorer countries to improve themselves. - ReeseKaine, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Dammit, I was hoping for a Hell in the Cell.
- salinemist, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Why didn't Hong Kong, Japan, or Singapore have this problem when they were developing their economies?
- ubercooldave, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1My money is on Gordon's flying clothesline.
- dadlinux, on 11/08/2009, -2/+2The majority of poorer nations are the way they are do to corrupt social political situations which deter from stability. Stability fosters growth, simple. Wind farms, solar panels or magic dust will not help unless their social factors improve.
- Tribuletereport, on 11/08/2009, -0/+0Words, words & words... The solution is simpler than it looks, just that there are big economic interests.
- inactive, on 11/08/2009, -2/+1It's quiet in here...
- salinemist, on 11/08/2009, -2/+1Cost of climate change?!?!! It doesn't cost anything to watch solar activity vary on it's own.
You want prosperity for poor nations? Rule of law, capitalism, and education. Stir and leave it alone.
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is