{"id":217966,"date":"2010-01-20T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:http:\/\/www.economist.com,2009:21004403"},"modified":"2010-01-20T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:17:10","slug":"aid-and-comfort-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217966","title":{"rendered":"Aid and comfort in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE quote of the day comes from Tyler Cowen<\/a>, on the question of disaster aid:<\/p>\n

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I still believe that foreign aid does not raise economic growth rates, on average.  But aid can alleviate human misery, such as when a visiting doctor gives vaccines or hands out medicine.  (In fact per capita income may fall<\/em>, as a result, if some “weaklings” are kept alive.) <\/p>\n

I also believe that the U.S. military can make a huge difference in the immediate aftermath of catastrophes.<\/p>\n

Imagine U.S. troops liberating Buchenwald.  Would any commentators say the following?  “Don’t give him that blanket, sell<\/em> it to him!”  “Hey buddy, get a job!”  “Moral hazard: they’ll just go get captured again.”  etc.  I don’t think so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t realise there was any kind of anti-planning backlash to government aid efforts in Haiti; I suppose I felt that was simply too cruel an outlook. Sometimes, incentives effects are simply not important. You help the people who need help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE quote of the day comes from Tyler Cowen, on the question of disaster aid: I still believe that foreign aid does not raise economic growth rates, on average.  But aid can alleviate human misery, such as when a visiting doctor gives vaccines or hands out medicine.  (In fact per capita income may fall, as a result, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4064,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}