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There is something seriously missing from this plan to make the American taxpayer pay and pay and pay as the mechanism for solving the world's ills. Two examples. The problem, it says, with "pariah states" is that "Big business and global money ignore countries where they see the risk of conflict outweighing their potential profit margins." Having characterized the problem of say a Robert Mugabe as "big business and global money," the solution becomes "Guarantees by international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund to lower the cost of borrowing for poor nations by underwriting investors' loans to conflict-torn states." The Mugabes of the world will surely rejoice, but the poor who will watch their corrupt overlords protected and reinforced, will not. As for the problem of the "brain drain," the "alternative solution" is "An international code of ethical guidelines overseen by bodies such as the World Health Organisation (for doctors and nurses) to monitor the harm that migration of professionals causes." One wonders if those same poor who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of this exercise will feel well served by labeling migration unethical.