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Thoughts? Today I\u2019m posting two of his comments, but we will be posting about Brooks\u2019 piece every afternoon this week \u2026\u00a0<\/b>\n
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The first of those truths is that we don\u2019t know how to use aid to reduce poverty. Over the past few decades, the world has spent trillions of dollars to generate growth in the developing world. The countries that have not received much aid, like China, have seen tremendous growth and tremendous poverty reductions. The countries that have received aid, like Haiti, have not.<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Fourth, it\u2019s time to promote locally led paternalism. In this country, we first tried to tackle poverty by throwing money at it, just as we did abroad. Then we tried microcommunity efforts, just as we did abroad. But the programs that really work involve intrusive paternalism\u2026.\u00a0It\u2019s time to take that approach abroad, too. It\u2019s time to find self-confident local leaders who will create No Excuses countercultures in places like Haiti, surrounding people \u2014 maybe just in a neighborhood or a school \u2014 with middle-class assumptions, an achievement ethos and tough, measurable demands.<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Brooks, in the NYTimes, knows that\u00a0relief is needed immediately but that a bigger issues looms in this discussion: that current \u201cremedies\u201d for poverty aren\u2019t working \u2014 and Haiti is the best example because there are as many as 10,000 organizations at work in Haiti \u2014 while perhaps the best remedy for poverty is paternalistic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nDavid Brooks on Haitian Poverty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David Brooks, in the NYTimes, knows that relief is needed immediately but that a bigger issues looms in this discussion: that current "remedies" for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/16\/david-brooks-on-haitian-poverty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David Brooks on Haitian Poverty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David Brooks, in the NYTimes, knows that relief is needed immediately but that a bigger issues looms in this discussion: that current "remedies" for\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/16\/david-brooks-on-haitian-poverty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-01-16T17:22:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Scot McKnight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Scot McKnight\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/16\/david-brooks-on-haitian-poverty\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/16\/david-brooks-on-haitian-poverty\/\",\"name\":\"David Brooks on Haitian Poverty\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-01-16T17:22:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-01-16T17:22:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252\"},\"description\":\"David Brooks, in the NYTimes, knows that relief is needed immediately but that a bigger issues looms in this discussion: that current \\\"remedies\\\" for\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/16\/david-brooks-on-haitian-poverty\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/16\/david-brooks-on-haitian-poverty\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/16\/david-brooks-on-haitian-poverty\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"David Brooks on Haitian Poverty\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/\",\"name\":\"Jesus Creed\",\"description\":\"Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith in the 21st century\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252\",\"name\":\"Scot McKnight\",\"description\":\"Scot McKnight is a recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. 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