Development doesn’t work as it should.  We spend more than $100 billion a year on development aid but . . .

1. •According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in sub-Saharan Africa there is less food per person than there was thirty years ago
   

2. •The Human Development Index of the United Nations suggests that average life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa, which stands at an astonishingly low forty-six years, is actually lower than it was two decades ago.
   

And the list goes on and on.  If free markets, global trade, and development were supposed to move us toward a world without poverty and with greater opportunity for all, then clearly something has gone terribly wrong.  This failure is costing us our economic, political and environmental security, now and in the future.  I spend my time thinking about how to fix this situation.

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