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i've spent quite a lot of time with version. he's stunning and muscular but unfortunately he's only three and a half feet tall

I think sufi lived in ancient Egypt for a bit

it's a weird way to characterise it. It's not democrat really. the big increases in aid came under George W, particularly PEPFAR (the massive hiv/aids fund). it's been bipartisan essentially since the 60s. the fallout does impact USAID obviously but the biggest impacts are on poor people in poor...

but it varies, depending on what specific thing you're talking about

it's a mixture. it's heading in the direction of 'building local capacity' as we would call it. that's definitely the case for healthcare. feeding children who might otherwise die ('severe acute malnutrition') is a mix. you need the systems and people in place to do it en masse. and you need to...

I don't get what you mean. yeah it's a massive problem, everything was built on the assumption that aid would continue as it had. fuck knows what's going to happen now. but hard to see how it plays out without a lot of people no longer having access to basic health services. like you know...

People will be pissed off about losing thier careers etc though, for sure. definitely part of the soup

I dunno. there will be public communications, which I guess is what you'll see. but especially the public health guys will be working through this methodically. you can't really get away with making wild claims without showing your working, and all the nerds will have massive arguments about...

that's not aid though. that's the garment industry basically. plus the rag trade. maybe some small charities, like the christian ones and so on. you'd never hear anyone seriously talking about doing something like that in the big aid world as some kind of project. clothing doesn't really come up.

yeah there is a bit of an undercurrent particularly among the more radical end of the aid world (eg new humanitarian) where people are saying that well, it's a catastrophe, but the old system had some big problems with it anyway. there's an acknowledgement among more or less everyone that the...

well that's the heart of the matter. how does a country develop and what are the underlying forces. what policies should there be. and more concretely for specific poor countries now, what specifically should they do to develop. and what are the costs and downsides of that. what can outside...

i don't know anything about condom manufacturing, but it's probably something to do with the rules that the US political system puts on aid, which i think are mostly the outcome of various lobbying efforts in congress. almost universaly regarded as the wrong way to do things.

i don't think you've understood the post you're responding to. it's mostly about governance rather than economics. its called rentier state thesis if you're interested in googling. in the late 00s people started to try to make the argument that this also applied to aid as well.

probably not tbh. i think a few countries have tried, from vague memory. garment production is a bit of a powerhouse. one of those industry agglomeration things where you need like the factory that makes buttons and the factory that makes zips etc all assembled in a chain. africa is a lot more...

the transposition of the rentier state idea that people had about extractive industries over to aid always made sense to me though. it never seemed true in the countries that i know well though. still looking for examples of this where someone has properly documented it.

that is pretty much how it works. everyone knew what you were saying by about 1990. there's exceptions eg the US has (well had) a lot of rules about having to buy food aid from american farmers. even the know-how bit is more and more about figuring out how to have people in poor / middle...

i actually spent a little bit of time specialising in this / the rag trade. oxfam are pretty careful not to do this, they have these big recycling plants and so on. the rag trade isn't aid. i think some charities still do it. but it's mostly private sector. all the stuff from those big clothes...

i think it does happen. i haven't seen any properly good examples of aid having a negative impact on an economy. there's been people like dambisa moyo who have made this kind of argument but it's always felt a bit thin. maybe there are examples are out there. but then there are also plenty of...

what do you mean

it's happening. the gulf states are getting more and more involved