Only about 15% reaches the beneficiary in government schemes. Are government run relief programs likely to have a better percentage? If not, then what do efficiency minded liberals do in disasters like tsunami?
Roger Bate has an answer: Donor nations could leverage earmarked aid funds by a multiple of three or four, depending on their tax rates, by allowing tax deductions to their own corporate and individual taxpayers for investments and philanthropy in designated developing countries. In other words, government-to-government aid could be converted into a larger amount of citizen-to-citizen aid.
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