http://danielsotelsek.com/2013/11/27/ted-es-china-el-nuevo-modelo-para-las-economias-emergentes/ Economía y Educación Mon, 02 May 2016 11:27:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://danielsotelsek.com/2013/11/27/ted-es-china-el-nuevo-modelo-para-las-economias-emergentes/#comment-1945 Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:35:11 +0000 http://comunidadesdeconocimiento.com/daniel/?p=1903#comment-1945 I thought that Dambisa Moyo had a few good ponits in her book, though it annoyed me that such light fare got published and put in airport bookshops But if she actually agrees with this (does she?), she’s lost all cred. One of the great weaknesses of all small-donor-funded NGOs is that they are beholden to people who don’t know much, and don’t have the time to learn. And I’ve seen this lead directly to incredible distortions, such as:(a) Mad rush to construct permanent housing in Aceh, contrary to known good practice(b) Mad rush to show photographable results in Aceh, including houses where there were no roads or services(c) Mad fund-raising by NGOs who’d never built a house in their history(d) Collection of funds far in excess of need(e) Inability to re-channel excess funds to Pakistan (for example) because they had been raised for Aceh .Say what you will about DFID, bilaterals, multilaterals they didn’t do any of those, because they are beholden to governments, not individuals.

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