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The people of Africa do not need aid. They can fund their infrastructure out of their own resources – the rents that are being sieved out of the continent. This self-funding mechanism (described in Ch. 5 [§3]) is the solution that economists choose to ignore. If you want to prove them wrong on behalf of the dollar-a-day billion, the starting point is for you to join the education program that has started in the West, which will eventually oblige politicians to take action on behalf of the bottom billion.
Citizens’ Dividends and Oil Resource Rent
A Focus on Alaska, Norway and Nigeria
Alanna Hartzok is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Earth Rights Institute, Vice President of the Council of Georgist Organizations, and UN NGO Representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation.
This paper was presented in the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG) track of the Eastern Economic Association 30th Annual Conference held February 20 – 22, 2004 in Washington, DC.
