These are all lame attempts to 'hack' nation development. If the country is so broken that flush toilets are 'not an option' there, go and fix the government (that might require a few JDAMs), civil society, and only then, infrastructure will follow. Don't try to fix consequence not touching the cause.
Absolutely. Any fix won't work long term. I relate this to all attempts to do 'small thing' improvements in developing countries like providing solar power to places where grid is 'not an option', makeshift toilets, makeshift electronic money on Android phones instead of normal banks etc. These things just don't work long term, they prolong the suffering much more than actually help. There is no 'hack' around building the functioning civil society, fixing corruption, tribalism and crime, and building a bull blown infrastructure - highways, railways, airports, electric grid, dams and bridges.
In fact, even just forcibly building infrastructure without putting the groundwork of civil society, democracy and working laws in place doesn't work so much - see Soviet Union.
>In fact, even just forcibly building infrastructure without putting the groundwork of civil society, democracy and working laws in place doesn't work so much - see Soviet Union.
1. Former Soviet Union countries are much better off than Madagascar.
