Actually the dollar's risen, it's about 10 lives per $1.50.
I definitely agree that malaria's one of the worst failures of the Western development program. The question is, why haven't tens of billions of dollars of health spending in the developing world haven't made a bigger dent in the problem. You're skeptical of globalization, but all this money spent in a few very different ways (gov't-to-gov't loans and grants, NGO spending, NGO action, private action, etc.) haven't solved the problem.
You say there're solutions out there. What would you propose? I'm not sure we could require unions and democracy in developing nations. It'd cause capital flight to places that don't, and the odds of the Caymans requiring the same sorts of things that the US does are nil; besides, the odds of actually enforcing these measures in some parts of the world are slim to none. Outside spending has been going on for decades with no end in sight. So what's the practical solution?
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I definitely agree that malaria's one of the worst failures of the Western development program. The question is, why haven't tens of billions of dollars of health spending in the developing world haven't made a bigger dent in the problem. You're skeptical of globalization, but all this money spent in a few very different ways (gov't-to-gov't loans and grants, NGO spending, NGO action, private action, etc.) haven't solved the problem.
You say there're solutions out there. What would you propose? I'm not sure we could require unions and democracy in developing nations. It'd cause capital flight to places that don't, and the odds of the Caymans requiring the same sorts of things that the US does are nil; besides, the odds of actually enforcing these measures in some parts of the world are slim to none. Outside spending has been going on for decades with no end in sight. So what's the practical solution?