tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657459.post111944819567782218..comments2023-09-09T17:41:33.146+03:00Comments on HISTOLOGION: taloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13680864841710474232noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657459.post-1119478526249391582005-06-23T01:15:00.000+03:002005-06-23T01:15:00.000+03:00Actually both Mr. Monbiot and yours' truly, sugges...Actually both Mr. Monbiot and yours' truly, suggest that people who have been spectacularly succesful in breeding corruption should stop *taking* money from impoverished countries. And either remove trade tarrifs on third world products or allow extensive protectionism for their own products, or preferably both.<BR/><BR/>BTW, you seem to have skipped over this relevant part of Monbiot's article on debt "forgiveness":<BR/><BR/>"The idea swallowed by most commentators – that the conditions our governments impose help to prevent corruption – is laughable. To qualify for World Bank funding, our model client Uganda was forced to privatise most of its state-owned companies, before it had any means of regulating their sale. A sell-off which should have raised $500m for the Ugandan exchequer instead raised $2m. The rest was nicked by government officials. Unchastened, the World Bank insisted that – to qualify for the debt relief programme the G8 has now extended – the Ugandan government sell off its water supplies, agricultural services and commercial bank, again with minimal regulation."taloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13680864841710474232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657459.post-1119474570984112322005-06-23T00:09:00.000+03:002005-06-23T00:09:00.000+03:00so i guess Mr Monbiot and the present histologion ...so i guess Mr Monbiot and the present histologion support the idea of giving money to people who have proven spectacularly unsuccusful in using it for development purposes WITH NO conditions whatsoever? Why don't dump the money to the ocean instead? It will have the same effect and at least everobody will know it!S Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15494314043804907813noreply@blogger.com