traurig, aber...Re: Was ist und warum versagt Entwicklungshilfe?

verfasst von weissgarnix, 07.08.2006, 10:56

-->... um ganz ehrlich zu sein: einen Artikel mit ganz ähnlichen Aussagen habe ich schon mal vor etwas über einem Jahr irgendwo, vermutlich im"Economist", gelesen. Das schmälert den Gehalt dieser Analyse überhaupt nicht, sondern belegt nur, dass die"Wahrheit" eigentlich längst bekannt ist.

Dennoch ändert sich nix. Das ist der Skandal.



>Hi,
>Ruth Lea, eine Direktorin des Centre for Policy Studies und non-executive director der Arbuthnot Banking Group hat im DT eine feine Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen Entwicklungshilfe und Armut geliefert. Ihr Ausgangspunkt ist der beklagenswerte Zustand der sog."Doha-Runde" (WTO).
>Auszüge:
>"Improved access to the rich markets of the West, it was widely claimed, could act as a major stimulant to the trade of poor, developing countries and, therefore, to their growth and prosperity... [soweit die"reine Lehre"].
>[Allerdings:]
>"With a few exceptions the current WTO rules on trade and subsidies do not prevent developing countries from trading, so there are limited gains here.
>"And, contrary to some of Doha's propaganda, dramatic cuts in rich countries' agricultural support programmes (especially in the EU and the US), a fatally crucial part of the Doha agenda, are unlikely to give much of a boost to the world's poorest countries, which are overwhelmingly in sub-Saharan Africa.
>"One reason is that... these countries generally do not grow many crops which compete directly with exports from the rich West. [Ausnahme Baumwolle - in Maßen]
>"In any case, they already have good access to rich countries' markets through special preference programmes. And, finally and crucially, many of the poorest countries are net importers of agricultural products.
>[Also:]
>"They do not need so much new export markets. They need more goods and services to sell, along with improved transport infrastructures to help them sell them. They need more indigenous growth.
>[Voraussetungen dafür:]
>"They include a stable and peaceful political environment (no wars); non-corrupt and fiscally prudent governments; efficient administrations; respect for property rights and the rule of law; open economies and market-oriented and business-friendly tax and regulatory regimes. [Soweit, so klar]
>[Warum es nicht läuft, erklären Phänomen wie Robert Mugabe und andere Herrschaften seines Kalibers]
>[Die Statistiken:]
>"The World Bank's [1] latest business survey of 155 countries showed that four-fifths of the 20 countries with the most difficult business conditions were in sub-Saharan Africa.
>"Africa's business people face many obstacles when creating and investing in businesses, including heavy regulation and taxation, weak property rights and crippling start-up costs.
>"In Sierra Leone, business taxes can account for 164pc of the company's gross profits. In Niger it costs 4½ times the annual per capita income to set up a business, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the multiple is five.
>"By comparison, in the UK and the US the cost is less than 1pc.
>"The need for internal reform in many African countries is vital to help business... [wishful thinking]
>"It is not the WTO, which is a forum for negotiating and applying the rules of trade. Branding the WTO's Doha Round a"development round" increasingly looks like a mistake.
>[Und zum Kern:]
>"If foreign aid had been a major driver of growth, then Africa would have been a star performer.
>"Between 1975 and 2000 aid to sub-Saharan Africa averaged $24 per capita a year compared with $5 per capita for, for example, south Asia. [Wo isse geblieben, die Kohle?]
>"Yet over this period GDP per capita grew by an annual average rate of nearly 3pc in South Asia, compared with an annual average fall of 0.6pc in sub-Saharan Africa [2].
>[Als summary:]
>"The economist Lord (Peter) Bauer's apocryphal description of foreign aid as 'an excellent method of transferring money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries' seems sadly apt in the case of Africa.
>[Auf den Punkt gebracht! Deutsch: Entwicklungshilfe ist eine hervorragende Methode, das Geld armer Leute in reichen Ländern auf die Konten reicher Leute in armen Ländern zu schaufeln]
>So schaut's für die BRD aus:
>[img][/img]
>Gilt als"Investition" - und dass bei Investitionen, dort, wo sie dann"realisiert" werden sollen, niemand die Pfote aufhält, kann getrost als Märlein bezeichnet werden.
>Noten zu Artikel oben:
>[1] World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, Doing Business in 2006: creating jobs, World Bank Group, September 2005
>[2] Cato Institute, Cato Handbook on Policy, 6th edition, 2005

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• Was ist und warum versagt Entwicklungshilfe? - dottore, 07.08.2006, 10:41
  • traurig, aber...Re: Was ist und warum versagt Entwicklungshilfe? - weissgarnix, 07.08.2006, 10:56
  • Begriff falsch verstanden - Toby0909, 07.08.2006, 11:51
    • Re: Begriff falsch verstanden - dottore, 07.08.2006, 12:28
      • Re: Begriff falsch verstanden - Toby0909, 07.08.2006, 13:35
        • Re: Begriff falsch verstanden - dottore, 07.08.2006, 14:59