As the CEO of German development bank DEG was asked in the 80s at a reception in Africa, what he liked most in the black continent, he said, "The splendid tribal costumes and national costumes. With proudly took the numerous present potentates and dictators against the alleged praise, before the man pursues: They have so many pockets.
The output of the summit in Heiligendamm, yet full to bursting, without necessarily using the approved 44 billion € or $ 60 billion is a little better at some.
The liberal African economist James Shikwati makes so many years talked about that it calls for the cessation of all development assistance . Did he initially complained that the latter, where the resource rents are not enough to set up a corrupt regime, to fund lead just this dictatorship. And found that subsidized European agricultural goods - and because it is stupid as not only the Statlerschen chicken legs, but nationwide price dumping by European taxpayers' money - not to let its own market. Prohibitions do not belong the exports of European agricultural goods but subsidies for exports and the subsidizing of production. In their own interest. Subsidies and guaranteed purchase at fixed prices do in fact useful for the manufacturers over-production, because they know in advance that they get rid of every piece. In a market access system of the "pig cycle" would. As with the Turks at the corner of the purchased lots of vegetables to sell at the end of the day cheaper to obtain at least its cost price. Over-production, thanks to export subsidy also corrupts even in Africa, the prices would fail in other words.
Meanwhile, he is firmly in the FR , afford the west and China in a bizarre competition to buy with development funds conduct. So the Chinese people in Sudan generous alimony to get its oil reserves to keep the long term and generous in the Security Council to hand over the regime, meanwhile, can finish in peace his genocide in Darfur.
allowed the sweet poison of development assistance, the countries that refrain from establishing a functioning tax system, which enables them to revenue in its own right in the first place. There is no reason to develop a powerful marketing support, which would be to income and profits in a position to guarantee these taxes permanently Shikwati noted. Do we need new resources, we search for a donor in the developed world.
would in a free market environment, many tasks that are now financed through development assistance, performed by African companies and the market financed. However, this would limit the power of potentates and reduce the dependence of the people of the distributed donated.
who doubt the correctness of the hypotheses is the Kenyan, which was the report of a correspondent of the Economist recommended from this week, there did forty years of service at the time of the Declaration of Independence and is now visited the country again.
Infrastructure In comparison to the colonial period expired. The time for the trip from Nairobi to Mombasa has doubled because of the many potholes and poor road condition of the road from four to eight hours. The tribal feuds are not overcome. But corruption abound. Not even against the new government, which it awards otherwise good notes, some hosts. On the other hand, seem not to have had many successes because of the government, but despite it.
input he mentioned that two colors in each village economy are: the regional mobile operators, which mark the monotony of the prepaid shops. The farmer can now ask about the price of his bag onions before he used to a whole day to drive on the market. After the state has failed for forty years, creating an infrastructure for telephony, the private me anything you missed anything that caught up in forty years. White also Shikwati in the Frankfurter Rundschau, which is a remarkable special published on Africa at the G8 summit.
has already outlined in the eighties, the liberal economist Carl von Weizsacker Christan only one and a half pages, three innovations have increased as the consumer sovereignty: The refrigerator makes goods more durable, so you can buy more as the need for a day. The phone increases the ease and the radius of the information and the car improved coverage and service capacity. Improving the quality of life of the whole continent is still far away, where the population is still growing at a breathtaking pace, which inevitably leads to the slums of entire regions, where there is just now at least mobile, but no electricity. Shikwati points in FR out that in Kenya, the liberalization of the mobile market has led to an increase of 75%. Another indication that the problem is not globalization, but the de facto exclusion of an entire continent from the global division of labor. The
be organized not so flat be formulated as Statler in his amnüsanten chicken Hugo polemic, which provides a brilliant definition of globalization (reduction of transaction costs) and an incorrect assessment of the European price dumping on the African continent (a seeing chicken missed its day).
Michael Holmes makes on achgut.de attention to a different phenomenon, for that matter are the hypotheses of Attac and other "anti-globalization" is contrary to fundamental: development aid is organized collectively and democratically controlled. It operates under the rules of the plan and the command economy and not on the principle of human rights and Freedom of the individual. Collectively organized the responsibility and compliance with the previously set targets. Are all responsible for everything but no one is individually responsible if the targets are not achieved. That the quoted text next to it clears up a widespread misconception is an additional merit: it points out that the "poverty trap", the collective development of the World Bank or IMF to the state organization can do, do not exist: If the assumption is correct, only high income and the chance of capital accumulation on productivity growth could lead to growth, should the developed countries report a higher growth, than the poor nations. In fact, developing countries generally have higher growth than from the wealthy industrialized nations.
The current development aid has failed to make the countries of Africa fit for global competition. Just today, the FAZ reported that about Uganda in the biscuit production is ailing from lack of power. Development assistance is a modern indulgences with which we justify our foreclosure and the new protectionism, the only development opportunities of the emerging wg. wants to curtail climate change.
If we are serious about the fight for a just world, we would have our markets to products Open from Africa and eliminate our export subsidies immediately and our agricultural subsidies, at least gradually, to farmers in Europe to give a chance to orient themselves to, while in Africa the children continue to starve.
heard the collective development set. In their place could be a new "Marshall Plan" for Africa, are not encouraging the States, but individual companies and people directly. As with the Marshall Plan did not in the form of outright grants, but of guarantees and loans. Which, like the micro-credit idea the Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus can be sufficient even to interest of 20%, the this country would be considered usury. A bicycle, which allows you to bring his crop to market, a cabinet that leads into a shop for range expansion and increases the durability of goods, a mobile phone with which you can find the current price for the harvested potatoes, a sewing machine be manufactured and sold with the clothes can, fertilizers, with the increase of the field can be increased, can be funded through micro-credit. The higher interest rate resulting from the processing fee, which would not be funded from a market rate, thus making the bench in the matter, even a profitable business.
The capital employed is growing and can be used again and again. It caused profits and income from which tax liability arises. With the taxes, the state can directly invest in infrastructure and increase productivity through a functioning power grid, roads intact and efficient urban transport. In addition, he is able to finance these tax revenues a proper judiciary and ensure the public safety with a functioning police. So a shoe out of it.
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