Ideology is no basis for international development

www.thelocal.se ^ | 11/07/2007 | Nima Sanandaji

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Sweden's international development agency, SIDA, relies on left-wing ideology rather than facts and logic, argues Nima Sanandaji, from the Captus think tank.

”Gender inequality is one of the main reasons for poverty in a world where 99 percent of the world’s total wealth is owned by men and where 90 percent of the total incomes globally are earned by men.”

Where does the above quote come from? To begin with, it is of course as wrong as it can get. In a country such as the UK women own more wealth than men. And more than two percent of global wealth is owned by the British. So even in that one single country, women own more than one percent of the world’s total wealth. Are we to assume that women’s ownership in all other countries is negative?

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As a Swedish tax payer, I sometimes wonder how little actual progress my, involuntary, contribution to insane Marxist governments around the Globe has resulted in.

My suggestion; Scrap 1968 once and for all and let's restore the true ideals of Western Civilization.

Amen.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Same topic viewed from the right. A bit long but worth the time.

PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring 1998Ralph Peters

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters/98spring/peters.htm

When talent enters a work force, it creates jobs. Competition improves performance. In order to begin to compete with the American leviathan and the stronger of the economies of Europe and the Far East, less-developed countries must maximize their human potential. Instead, many willfully halve it.
The point isn’t really the fear that women will steal jobs in Country X. Rather, it’s a fundamental fear of women—or of a cultural caricature of women as incapable, stupid, and worrisomely sexual. If, when you get off the plane, you do not see men and women sitting together in the airport lounge, put your portfolio or treaty on the next flight home.

[WesternCulture]

Thanks for posting!