Here's my own personal secret to social innovation... do it all over again. In software design we call this process refactoring. Write the code, get it to work and then start all over again learning from the mistakes you made doing it the first time.
As someone that's been to one of the world's worst countries (and I mean that economically, environmentally, and every other sub category by which you could judge a sovereign state), I can tell you the one big mistake that WE always make when we try to help THEM is that we only try once. We fix a problem (at least it looks fixed in our eyes) and then we leave. We need to continually keep fixing the problem.
This would seem to imply that WE need to stay THERE forever... and it does. We must accept the fact that once we enter a situation we can only ever make it worse by leaving. We must find a system that allows us to stay in trouble regions without controlling them until the time comes that THEY ask us to leave.
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