ฉันรักแปลภาษาHowever, for what it is worth, let me give you my
explanation. Many advocates of aid are well-intentioned, but not well-informed.
The aid crusade is largely a gigantic confidence trick. A well-meaning public
has been conned by a motley coalition playing on feelings of guilt which,
however unfounded, are nevertheless widespread. This coalition includes
international agencies and government departments anxious to icrease their
activities and power; professional humanitarians with similar ambitions;
disillusioned, bored, power-and money-hungry or unsuccessful academics; the
Churches, which face spiritual collapse and seek a role as welfare agencies;
Temperamental do-gooders, frustrated by event at home; politician in search of
publicity; exporters in search of easy markets; and governments embarrassed by
commodity surpluses. There are also many people who welcome any argument
or policy which in some way or other weakens the position of Western society,
which for various political and emotional reasons they have come to dislike.
I think it would be best finish with this system of hand-outs, which is
bad both for the patrons and for the patronized, and which, by the way, was only
started some twenty years ago. However, this is unlikely to come about, because
of the emotional, political, intellectual, financial and administrative interests
behind it. Moreover, the immense sums already spent on aid themselves operate
against its termination. Given the face that aid will continue, I would wish to see
the method and criteria of allocation changed drastically. Aid could be allocated
in such a manner that it would favour governments which, within their human,
administrative and financial resources, by to perform the essential tasks of
government, at the same time refraining from close control of the economy.
These tasks include the successful conduct of external affairs; the maintenance
of low and order; the effective management of the monetary and fiscal system;
the promotion of a suitable institutional framework for the activities of
individuals; the provision of basic health and education services, and of basic
communications; and agricultural extension work. These are functions which
must devolve on the government: first, because that part of the the institutional
structure within which the private sector function does not emerge from the
operation of market forces, and so must be established by law; second, because
some of the activities yield services which cannot be bought and sold in the
market.