Thursday, October 28, 2021

AID - MIRACLES & DISASTERS

Modern markets of aid started after world war 2 at the united nations most nations recognised they had been colonised; most by th 7 white empires (UK FRANCE, Germany , Italy, Russia, USA, Canada) and japan who were the main forces in world war 2) ; with exception of Japan all major colonisation from late 15th century discovery of new world was adminstered by whites out of Europe ( in fact Portugal's Henry Navigator and Spain began the process resulting in a quite extraordinary border of who owned latin maerica who, and Netherlands had been a very significant player across Asia's southern coatal belt but it largesly came to agreemenets with the UK by ww2)
  
while some colonistaion may have been besign - the reality is it included slavemaking, guns and ships canons, genocide in various mixes; and across most of Asia where 60% of people lived and Africa colonisation meant extracting a colony's resoutces mainly for the benefit of the empure and its trade; the top down admisnstrative systems of colonisers mainly controlled peoples; take the indias subconstunet for example; this placed a quarter of the human race under the adminstration of British Raj - alumni of Mahatma Ganddhi calculated that ar best the epopel of India were paying compound tax of 80%- ie only 20% of their labors and country's assets benefited them. 
Even if we can dbeate some numbers it was clear at the birth of teh UN that a huge number of nations needed freedom; but taking the British case as the biggest example- world war 2 had ended the uk's budgetaey surplus; the nation would rely on eg usa to be kickstarted; so while it hasrily handed out freeod=doms eg to placesd that had been British Raj- it offered evry little immediate comoendation and it passed on the same top-down system that had centuries of of povery classed embedded in it. 

So it shouldn't be surprising taht miracles were needed to  free peoples to rise and rise. This is a fascinating subject to map all over the world from 1945. There may be a few sity port cases (compact populations less than 1 like siganpore where great leasderhip set the natins peoples on the best expoential rising f all

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