February 23, 2004

Lag time

Work has me looking through the 2002 budget of USAID. I'm updating a chart that matches Uncle Sam's donations with Uncle Soros's for selected countries.

I'm a little surprised that as of this late date, the U.S. was still doling out about $20 million in economic aid to Ireland. America's donation puts Ireland in a charity group featuring underdevelopment all-stars like Romania ($38 million, and a hell of a lot more people), Bosnia-Herzegovina ($65 million, and a somewhat more recent civil war), and my ancestral home of Belarus ($11 million, and the only Brezhnev dictatorship left in Europe.)

I recognize that Ireland has a long history of poverty. But it's history. By 2002 they'd drawn on years of intense EU subsidies and good government to surpass Britain in per capita income. The only other non-recovering-Communist country on the U.S. bankroll is Cyprus. Why is this still going on?

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