... profits the return on interest. It make no sense to implicitly say you want more inflows and fewer outflow when one implies the other.
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I am challenging you to come up with an alternative rough number to tell a truer story than "helpless recipient". Can you do it?
I dont think alternative option is "helpless dupe". Ppl & institutions hv agency. Q is how much can/do rich countries help & not hinder dev
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Quest for single no. for flows in vs flows out treats economies as inert buckets, wi all agency focused on outsiders as saviour or villain
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Useful. So maybe that quest was a wrong turn. So what numbers can be used to balance "they just get loads in aid" with extraction narrative
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the media says "we are sending billions to Africa". is the cgdev CDI the only reply? Or is there a dollar number we can come up with?
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I think $ flows is looking wrong way. As if wealth fixed & can only be redistributed. Big Q is what do we do that enables/undermines growth?
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agreed that is the question. and the cgdev index is v useful. perhaps that's the best we can do.
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i thought the "real aid" work led by Actionaid back in the day was v useful, but didn't explore extractive outflows...
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