Paul Theroux joins the poverty debate
Apropos of our earlier rant on free trade and development, here’s a NY Times op-ed piece that has the gall, the gall, I tell ya, to find Bono, Pitt and Jolie and their misplaced, misinformed do-gooding annoying. I say aye, Mr. Theroux.
Substitute “IMF loans and cheap money” for “humanitarian aid,” keep the brain drain and the corrupt politicians, and take away the rock star and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and voila, you have my beloved country.
I give you the Philippines, the Ireland of Asia. Sorta brings to mind that great Alan Parker movie, eh? Yeah, you know which bit of dialogue I’m talking about.