We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program. |
When countries open up to trade, they generally benefit, because they can sell more, then they can buy more. And trade has two-way gain. |
When is the last time anybody heard Vice President Dick Cheney even feign a word of concern for the world's poor? |
While the Bush administration is prepared to spend $100 billion to rid Iraq of WMD, it has been unwilling to spend more than 0.2% of that sum... this year on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. |
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. |
You can't fight the greatest pandemic for years without resources, |