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May 22, 2007
Merit-based placements
Q: What do you win if you achieve the "Robert Mugabe level of economic incompetence"?
A: Leadership of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
Wow.
Posted by Dingel at May 22, 2007 07:24 PM
Comments
The Economist has an interesting leader on this:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_JTJDRSV
"Few things are more dull than a worthy cause run by a do-gooding country. It is a fair bet that if, say, Sweden or Canada were chairing the commission, nobody outside the aid industry would hear a squeak about its doings over the next year. Zimbabwe's stewardship, by contrast, will attract much scrutiny. Journalists, donors and other critics will be searching for examples of misspent money or—even better—further examples of hypocrisy."
Posted by: Milan Ilnyckyj at May 24, 2007 12:05 AM