After reading The Great Escape and Half the Sky and considering each one carefully, I would say that the way Kristoff and WuDunn explains about helping the oppressed people and offering aid, it is more specific and very carefully explained then Angus Deaton. The way that Angus talks about aid is more general, just like giving money to poor countries but not really knowing where this donation will be applied to. For this reason, I would say Kristoff and Wudunn would be right about the foreign aid.
The aid help that the Half of the Sky talks about is helping specific causes that are hurting the world’s progress because most of them are crimes against women that are most of the time voiceless. So these women in order to be heard they need our …show more content…
In “The Great Escape” book the author makes a good point where he says where some countries were harmed because they received enormously help from other countries. So instead of giving all these monies to these governments, look for legit projects from the people that live in these countries and see what kind of project they have, make sure the money will be applied to a good cause that it help the country. Instead of just giving money away unconditionally. The problem I can see with that is that when people are donating the money most of them do not really want to spend much time on researching for information. This can definitely be a time consuming project and therefore, people just believe that by giving the money they are already helping these …show more content…
She was able to transform a formerly land used as a garbage dump, and opened The Edna Adan Maternity Hospital. Because the region lacked trained nurses to work at the hospital, she recruited candidates and began training them while the hospital was still under construction. Not only that, she is training other nurses to go on with her duty but she is promoting awareness for female genital mutilation and reaching out the women in that country that they need to understand that they can change things around and giving some kind of hope to these people. That will not solve that country’s main problem but it is a beginning of some type of hope for these
The aid help that the Half of the Sky talks about is helping specific causes that are hurting the world’s progress because most of them are crimes against women that are most of the time voiceless. So these women in order to be heard they need our …show more content…
In “The Great Escape” book the author makes a good point where he says where some countries were harmed because they received enormously help from other countries. So instead of giving all these monies to these governments, look for legit projects from the people that live in these countries and see what kind of project they have, make sure the money will be applied to a good cause that it help the country. Instead of just giving money away unconditionally. The problem I can see with that is that when people are donating the money most of them do not really want to spend much time on researching for information. This can definitely be a time consuming project and therefore, people just believe that by giving the money they are already helping these …show more content…
She was able to transform a formerly land used as a garbage dump, and opened The Edna Adan Maternity Hospital. Because the region lacked trained nurses to work at the hospital, she recruited candidates and began training them while the hospital was still under construction. Not only that, she is training other nurses to go on with her duty but she is promoting awareness for female genital mutilation and reaching out the women in that country that they need to understand that they can change things around and giving some kind of hope to these people. That will not solve that country’s main problem but it is a beginning of some type of hope for these