| there is no evidence we can find of top-down aid building a country- it should be used for specific -and not continuous- system support eg disaster relief born 1971, bangladesh thanks mainly to fazle abed and partly to muhammad yunus developed bottom up aid- the nation began as 90% rural without access to electricity; brac designed mothers businesses with positive cash flow however small on life changing demands - eg rice production, door dashing basic medicines by foot (Barefoot medics networks), oral rehydration training japan and britain (and possibly canada) supported this bottom up development model- bangladesh had been impoverished by losing access to calcutta when independence of the subcontinent was partitioned; japan helped fill part of the gap with low cost loans for bangladesh to build airport still the challenge to development in tis 8th most populous nation has always been infrastructure catch up; it did develop leapfrog models with mobile phones and solar but has suffered from disastrous neighbor myanmar being cut off for continent coastlines which are otherwise thriving trading areas it was tragic that Japan's Abe was assassinated as he understood abed's last intelligence networks (aged dying age 83 december 2019); the idea of uniting women graduate engineers around world emerged when steve jobs hosted fazle abed 65th birthday party silicon valley 2001; 21st C west coast usa has exponentially designed win-wins with asians in ways that atlantic facing usa has not welcome to economistjapan.com, Japanthanks.com and economistwomen.com - first 60 years  |
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