Global Politician

NGOs: The Parasitic Altruists
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 8/24/2011
Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics, do-gooders, and professional altruists. They are parasites who feed off natural and manmade disasters, mismanagement, conflict, and strife.

The Uselessness of Indices Produced by NGOs: Transparency International and Heritage Foundation
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 10/29/2010
Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index

Healthcare Reform Checklist
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 6/19/2009
GENERAL

Healthcare legislation in countries in transition, emerging economic, and developing countries should permit - and use economic incentives to encourage - a structural reform of the sector, including its partial privatization.

KEY ISSUES

· Universal healthcare vs. selective provision, coverage, and delivery (for instance, means-tested, or demographically-adjusted)

· Health Insurance Fund: Internal, streamlined market vs. external market competition

· Centralized system - or devolved? The role of local government in healthcare.
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NGOs - Bureaucracies Legitimizing Oppression and Corruption
Ibrahim Sajid Malick - 4/26/2007
Annual NGO summit concluded at the United Nations in New York on October 6, 2004. Here, no one seems to question the fundamental concept of NGO and how it often plays the role of quasi bureaucracy un-intentionally legitimizing corrupt leaders, oppressive governments, and imperialist structure.

NGOs: The Self-Appointed Altruists
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 4/9/2005
Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics, do-gooders, and professional altruists.