Saving the World

Worthwhile Efforts

• The Infrastructures of Democracy Project - by the Martin Prosperity Institute [1]. Appears to be asking relevant questions about underlying structures.

Failures

• Succcess in one location - money pours in - scaled failure model for charitable aid - [2]

• 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?