Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact of the matter is, for whatever reasons nations like Ethiopia need help with domestic development. At the risk that some independent international body should oversee the allocation of funds to developing...
Often, relief aid comes too late and helps preserve the existing social and political order, blocking changes necessary to prevent recurring disaster. The alternative is not, as some have suggested, leaving "tolerable" levels of poverty to spark development; Ethiopia is, in many respects, too weakened to respond to "pressures" of that grisly nature. Nor does the solution lie in Indira Gandhi-like methods of population control. Unless the need for large families to increase agricultural production is alleviated by more efficient methods, the root cause will persist...
...kinds of changes Ethiopia must under go are much clearer than the mechanisms for effecting those changes. The government certainly must spend money on agriculture development and try to balance food crops against cash crops raised for export more effectively...
Should the United States offer unconditional relief and help bolster Ethiopia's military to win them over from the Soviets, and their dicate how Mengistu should run the country? Or perhaps we should make additional aid contingent upon Mengistu getting his act together and running the country right. Irrespective of the fact that both of these proposals ride roughshod over the principle of state sovereignty and self determination, both would lead Ethiopia further into the depth of dependency...
Drought will always come to Ethiopia. But if the country can reach a level of development where food production exceeds population growth, the threat of extinction will not be to Ethiopia but to famine itself...