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The Political Economy of Aid Optimism or Pessimism
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| Actually, we have also previously argued
| that aid has been more successful in health
| than in other areas. However, one petty and
| parochial concern we had about the progress
| reports is that Bill and Melinda Gates
| continue to make a case for malaria success
| stories based on bad or fake data that we
| have criticized on this blog already twice.
| The Gateses were aware of our blog because
| they responded to it at the Chronicle of
| Philanthropy.
|
| Yet they continue to use the WHO 2008 World
| Malaria Report as their main source for data
| on malaria prevalence and deaths from
| malaria in Africa. As we pointed out in the
| earlier post, the report establishes such
| low standards for data reliability that some
| of the numbers hardly seem worth quoting.
| From the WHO report: âreliable data on
| malaria are scarce. In these countries
| estimates were developed based on local
| climate conditions, which correlate with
| malaria risk, and the average rate at which
| people become ill with the disease in the
| area.â Where convincing estimates from real
| reported cases of malaria could not be made,
| figures were extrapolated âfrom an empirical
| relationship between measures of malaria
| transmission risk and case incidence.â
|
| [...]
|
| Of course, we HATE this political economy
| theory when itâs applied to US. We are VERY
| unhappy when people conclude that because we
| are skeptical about malaria data quality
| (and thus whether they show progress),
| therefore we really donât care about how
| many Africans are dying from malaria and
| wish that all government money went to
| subsidize fine dining in New York. And, the
| Gateses would probably not be fond of this
| political economy explanation of their
| actions and beliefs either. Both of us would
| prefer the alternative âacademicâ theory of
| belief formation, in which it is all based
| on evidence and data, not political
| interests.
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http://aidwatchers.com/2009/10/the-political-economy-of-aid-optimism-or-pessimism/#comments
Related:
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio
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| ...the Gates Foundation took down their public statement on this
| and replaced it with a significantly altered version which seems to
| say that investing responsibly would just be too complex for them
| and that they need to focus on their core mission: 'There are
| dozens of factors that could be considered, almost all of which
| are outside the foundation's areas of expertise. The issues
| involved are quite complex...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/1756212&from=rss
Gates Foundationâs Influence Criticized
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| The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that
| the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping
| out the world health agencyâs policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttq0IdULfjg
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnqnMHQ1c
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