Monday, April 22, 2013
Why are we burdened?
The book seems to indicate that we don't really know how to fix the problems in the third world. If this is the case, why are we still sending aid? I'm not against helping people that are less fortunate, but Easterly's thesis seems to be that not only is our aid not really helping, but it sometimes even hurts, which means that I find it hard to support wasting money on such efforts as there are no positive results.
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I agree, but Easterly also stated that a specfic, bottom driven effort to deal with local issues is the way to create real change. So, I think we do know how to a certain extent, but not completely how.
ReplyDeleteI think that we are burdened because we feel that since we are blessed with so much, we should help those who are not. Why we continue our efforts even though they are not effective probably has something to do with a feeling of moral obligation. It is important to keep in mind that our actions on some level do have positive results, and that we are helping to some degree, we just aren't solving the problem.
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