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TrueValueMetrics ... Peter Burgess Manuscript
Making Management Work for Relief and Development |
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Chapter 41
Afterword |
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Can We Have Success?
Certainly ... but only if ... Two things seem to be important:
What's in it for me? The poverty and destitution of the “south” is going to have disastrous consequences for the “north” ... sooner or later. The “north” cannot maintain its wonderfully material and profligate standard of living unless it has access to energy supplies and raw materials that are only to be found in abundance and at low cost in the “south” ... and there are enough intelligent poor to understand that their poverty ought to be substantially alleviated by the exploitation of the “south's” resources. Global security is going to be better or worse depending on the success of the relief and development sector, much more than it will depend on the unilateral military power of the “north”. Military power is valuable as a deterrent, but much less valuable operationally ... and in a development context usually a source of extreme value destruction. |
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