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Slider comments on Can You Give Support or Feedback for My Program to Alleviate Poverty? - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Brendon_Wong 25 June 2015 11:18PM

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Comment author: Slider 26 June 2015 08:27:39PM 0 points [-]

You might end up driving the situation of the poor in the target rich country even worse. This migth or might not be offset by the increase of the poor country workers.

The skill of the Belize workers is mostly due to the public spending on schools there. Make sure the benefit it provides in the target rich state gives the appropriate monetary encouragement to continue doing that. if the skill of the Belizeans isn't used for the benefit of belizeans they might see less value in improving their education.

Comment author: ChristianKl 26 June 2015 11:41:45PM 3 points [-]

The state benefits from dollars flowing into Belize. Foreign currency is generally not a bad thing for developing nations.