mandate

Yesterday’s FT has a letter to the editor from Thomas Moore of the Brookings Hoover  (duh) Institution, and his subject is the difficulty countries such as Haiti have attracting long-term assistance. The problem is that countries are leery of providing anything more beyond short-term aid, because they fear that such assistance will just be siphoned off by the corrupt leadership. What’s the answer? He proposes the old idea of a mandate:

As he notes in the comments, Mike of the Don Street Blog, looked at these numbers nearly a year ago. And produced a handy line graph so you can more easily understand the decline of our civilization.