The US is further demonstrating that Core/Gap principles don't just apply to military initiatives but are applicable throughout US foreign and security policy. The US is conditioning aid in order to set up incentives controlling the worst of Gap abuses. These incentives make traditional aid bureaucrats uncomfortable. "Critics are warning that the account may produce inequities, leaving some of the most economically needy countries to compete for much smaller amounts of traditional aid."
President Bush campaigned, in part, in 2000 by railing against the soft bigotry of low expectations. This is largely an international version of this.
Posted by TMLutas at February 22, 2004 09:27 AM