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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The FIRST earthquake.
Countries put hundreds of millions into disaster relief after the 2010 earthqake, and accomplished essentially nothing in terms of relief.
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I donated after the 2010 earthquake and had friends work there, both on the recovery and medical relief. It sounds like there was a lot of money available, but very little will of the people to do anything. Western companies were offering complete turn-key solutions to rebuild infrastructure, and the locals were like, "No, we don't want that. We'll just slowly mess around and build one small concrete building at a time."
I hate to say it, but it is almost like they need a little imperialism. A larger power needs to take over, make administrative decisions, and get stuff done. They are just not able to govern themselves.