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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Development policies
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725039374snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <1992Dec18.164247.17939@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 15:49:34 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <1992Dec18.164247.17939@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP writes:
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- > This type of increasing deficit financing would be seen as a red flag
- > by any rational private investor. This kind of government borrowing and
- > international (government financed) lending is a recipe for disaster as
- > the above quote shows. The World Bank and the IMF have few success stories
- > they can claim for their policies which are founded on collectivist and
- > statist thinking by academic financiers playing with money for whose steward-
- > ship they are not held responsible.
- >
- > The alternative, of course, is for countries to make themselves attractive
- > for private foreign investment and development. This brings new jobs and
- > income to workers, tax revenue to the government, and a climate of prosperity
- > that fosters other investors, domestic and foreign, to start more businesses
- > catering to the new found flows of wealth.
-
- Hm, this alternative has already been tried, giving rise to the desire
- for "collectivist and statist" intervention. In those days, however,
- countries attracting such "private foreign investment" did so quite
- unintentionally, and there is doubt that with hindsight they would do
- it intentionally today.
-
- Some choice between incompetence and greed you have to offer. I think
- I shall just take relative prosperity including the outside dunny (my
- dear wife's ensuite notwithstanding), thank you very much.
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