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| | Does Africa deserve Aid from the West? (26th Nov 08 at 10:58am UTC) |   | | Many solutions have been suggested as to how Africa can be helped so that it can alleviate the problems facing it.One of them has been to increase aid given to Africa by donor countries.However think of this...Is the lack of money the problem or there something seriously wrong in the way African leaders run affairs of their countries? Take this case of Kenyan Members of parliament who yesterday 25th November 2008 refused to pay taxes and threw out the constitutional amendment requiring them to pay taxes like all Kenyans do! sad Also look at the monkey business Mugabe is doing in Zimbabwe which was once the basket and pearl of Africa1In my own view The West must force African leaders to be more accountable and transparent to their citizens and entrench good governance in the whole continent and everything will fall in place | |
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| | An Interesting and (28th Nov 08 at 2:59pm UTC) | | An Interesting and provocative post, which then poses the question:
- How can the west "force African leaders to be more accountable and transparent to their citizens"?
- Is that ethically the right thing to do? I.E Does anyone have the right to "force" something upon someone else?
- Is not this supposingly the role of the country's citizens?
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| | Tax the poor to discipline the rich? (16th Dec 08 at 8:01pm UTC) | | | One approach to this is to try and replace aid with general taxation. The potential success of this obviously depends on how strong a specific state's bureaucracy is and how large a proportion of the population earns a taxable (rather than bare subsistence) wage. Problems also include the difficulties in taxing the informal economy. It is arguable that taxation encourages citizens to participate more in decision making and political processes. If the government is using your money, you become more interested in how they are using it. There is a catch 22 in this process: the lack of viable public services in many sub-Saharan African countries makes the taxation threshold higher (i.e. more money is required for subsistence) and hence excludes a large proportion of the population in many states, but without including taxing most of the population, it is arguable that the demand for better public services will never be sufficient to lower the threshold. Hernando de Soto (who talks about South America) and William Easterly (esp The White Mans Burden) are worth reading on this. | |
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| | Re: Does Africa deserve Aid from the West? (17th Dec 09 at 11:56pm UTC) | | Yes. Africa deserves aid from the west because most of the problems Africa have come from the West. For example go and read what is going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
www.okonda.com/please_save_my_people.html
You will understand, why I am saying the above.
Thanks.
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