Saving the World

Survey of Efforts with stated missions of improving the world

• The Infrastructures of Democracy Project - by the Martin Prosperity Institute [1]. Appears to be asking relevant questions about underlying structures.
• Wants to double the size of the middle class in Peru - [2]
• TZM
• Russell Brand, Revolution
• Eugene McCarraher - [3]

Is the 1960 book by chayanev the seminal work on Economy of Affection?

I see Goran 1980 and the 2005 work - http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511791079&cid=CBO9780511791079A009

Analysis

• American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century - [4]

Failures

• Succcess in one location - money pours in - scaled failure model for charitable aid - [5]

• Australia and Canada have done away with their international development agencies altogether, absorbing them into mega-ministries covering foreign affairs and trade.
• Poor Economics, sort of the Principia Mathematica of “obvious” development interventions tested and found wanting.
• Book - With Charity For All on the failures of aid.
• On Jeffrey Sachs, Millenium Villages - The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty - huge failure according to this article, but not according to Wikipedia
• If we believe that trade is important, we could do more to open our own markets to trade from developing countries. If we believe property rights are important, we could do more to enforce the principle that nations, not illegitimate leaders, own their own natural resources. ... If we believe transparency is important, we could start by requiring our own companies to publish the details of the payments they make to developing countries.

Conclusions

For making a better world to succeed, a set of deep principles must be met. Can these principles be identified in met in future projects? Has OSE identified these principles and is OSE carrying these out in its work?