Does sending money to a poor country actually make it less poor, or does it just make donors feel better about themselves?
If billions of dollars have been flowing into developing nations for decades, why does the map of extreme poverty look almost identical to what it did fifty years ago?
When a government knows aid money is coming regardless of results, what exactly is its incentive to fix anything?
Who benefits most from the foreign aid system: the people it is supposed to help, or the institutions built around helping them?
If a business ran the way foreign aid organizations run, with no accountability for outcomes and no consequences for failure, how long would it survive?
For our Watch & Talk sessions, this video sparks discussion around global economics, organizational accountability, leadership ethics, and systems thinking.
This is the kind of topic that sounds like it belongs in a political science lecture but hits surprisingly close to home for anyone who manages budgets, measures results, or answers to stakeholders.
Watch the video here (but it’s always more interesting to talk about it 😉):
