The UNDP - UN Development Programme - has been with us forever, with all these super-rich "international tax parasites" riding rough all over the Third World in super-large SUVs, sending their kids to super-expensive "international schools," drinking and partying duty-free and all that, with very big music systems and even bigger colour TVs in their palatial bungalows.
And there has been ZERO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Why?
Because "economic development" happens in the ECONOMY - which means The Market. Unless the market is Free - from State Police as well as Customs Department interference - poor people in poor countries, who are ALL great traders, can never succeed "materially."
This is the Peter, Lord Bauer School of Thought in Development Economics. And in support of this view, with which I wholeheartedly agree, there is Deepak Lal's The Poverty of 'Development Economics' - which shows how and why the "etatist" mainstream school of thought is actually the main CAUSE of poverty.
This is "commonsensical." Just look at the map and you will see that those former Third World enclaves that have become "developed" all have free economies, and freely trade with the West: like Hong Kong and Singapore, the Emirates, and parts of Africa, as well.
Further, think of your own future. How do you think you yourself can flourish? By going for State handouts, or other "plans," "schemes," and "subsidies" - or through FREEDOM?
The current head of UNDP is Helen Clark, a former PM of New Zealand; she is attending the Rio+20 Conference on "environmental" bullshit - which, as I discussed just yesterday, is pure EVIL. Here are some of her statements at this conference, as reported here:
We don't need more cars, more TVs, more whatever...
I think there is a high level of awareness that the planet is in peril...
So the issue is how to get human development that will see it continue to rise for the world's poorest people and people in developing countries. Because frankly human development in the West - we don't need more cars, more TVs, more whatever.
Our needs are by and large satisfied, although the recession has put a lot of strains on that.
There is, in my opinion, a very heavy responsibility on the countries of the north to look at how they sustain their living standards with a much lower environmental footprint.
Actually, the planet is not in any peril; but poor people throughout this planet are in peril - only because of central banking, paper money inflationism or Keynesianism, which funds phoney welfarism, protectionism, and legislative interventionism which leads to bureaucratisation. This includes interventionism on environmental grounds.The Rio+20 conference aims at strengthening these environmental bureaucracies.
All these "ideas" - and therefore, all these "evil practices" - have come from the West.
Alarmism - as with the "climate change" bullshit.
All these "ideas" - and therefore, all these "evil practices" - have come from the West.
Like: "The Planet is in peril!"
Alarmism - as with the "climate change" bullshit.
Peter Bauer used to say that the Third World needs to practice nothing more than what the classical political economists prescribed: free trade, sound money, and property rights.
Note the emphasis on Sound Money.
The UNDP is funded through inflationism.
Now, I wonder what UNICEF teaches Third World kids?
