[JonnyBGood]

I wouldn't be averse to a bit of good old-fashioned socialist economics to get many of the world's poorest countries up to a minimum subsistence level. Real free-market approaches would also be of huge benefit. Of course most of this is fairly obvious. Actually the first post is really just an incredibly long way of saying give a man a fish and he can eat for one day; teach a man to fish, and he will never be hungry for the rest of his life. Clearly it's a better idea to teach people how to create wealth rather than just redistribute it. It's just rather more difficult for busy middle-class drones to support democracy and fair trade policies in Africa than for them to give a few dollars a month.