if a country has a high rate of poverty, that indicates that the negative feedback loops (such as corruption) are likely stronger than the positive ones, and that giving resources is ineffective.
That might be true, and is one of the possible stories that I’m keeping track of. But another story is one of mostly positive feedback loops that have barely got of the ground. In that case the resources infusion does net good, allocating resources to places where the marginal payoff per unit is higher (because those places have not hit the shoulder of the S-curve yet.)
That might be true, and is one of the possible stories that I’m keeping track of. But another story is one of mostly positive feedback loops that have barely got of the ground. In that case the resources infusion does net good, allocating resources to places where the marginal payoff per unit is higher (because those places have not hit the shoulder of the S-curve yet.)