Malnourishment
In an unrelated Ethiopia news story, an interesting New York Times feature looks at the problem of malnourished children, especially in Africa, and especially in Ethiopia where there are some relatively new and pretty promising programs in place to try and deal with the problem. As the article observes:
Yet almost half of Ethiopia’s children are malnourished, and most do not die. Some suffer a different fate. Robbed of vital nutrients as children, they grow up stunted and sickly, weaklings in a land that still runs on manual labor. Some become intellectually stunted adults, shorn of as many as 15 I.Q. points, unable to learn or even to concentrate, inclined to drop out of school early.
The result, obviously, is a kind of trap of impoverishment. Poor, badly governed states have a lot of children who suffer from these problems. The next generation grows up to be relatively lacking in human capital as a consequence of childhood malnourishment. And that, in turn, helps continue the country down a path of being poor and badly governed. Obviously, delivering food to hungry people is something rich countries are pretty well-positioned to do, and rich countries (especially the United States) do, in fact, provide a pretty large amount of food aid. But generous provision can cause problems of its own, distorting and undermining local markets in food production and distribution, when what you'd like to achieve is to put the country on a sustainable path where it no longer needs that kind of aid.
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Sounds like Mississippi and Alabama except for the 15 I.Q. point aspect. Probably pushing 50-75 points down there.
Would it be churlish to wonder how much iodine, folic acid, and vitamin A supplements Ethiopia could buy instead of maintaining its fleet of MiG fighter jets and Hind helicopter gunships and battling Eritrea over a worthless patch of desert?
Yeah, second that comment by Hank Scorpio. Is this actually unrelated? You have to wonder whether the Ethiopian government would really be so into invading its neighbours if it didn't have a cast-iron guarantee that the West would inevitably pick up the tab for feeding the entire population of Ethiopia for free, if necessary. I think this may be an example (don't know enough details to be certain) of how aid can be fungible, even when targeted - e.g. aid for schools, hospitals and food can still be used for military purposes as the local government can cut its spending on same to an equivalent degree and spend it on MiGs instead.
I've been pushing micronutrient supplementation for raising 3rd World IQs for several years in VDARE.com. It's good to see the NY Times finally getting on board.
http://www.vdare.com/Sailer/national_iq.htm
A question to Steve Sailer: If you think nutritional supplementation in the developing world is so important, why do you seem so convinced that Africans have a genetic propensity to have lower IQs? This weird fixation on genetics makes it difficult to take seriously the genuinely interesting stuff you've written about stuff like car salesmen taking advantage of cultural differences to rip off customers and how to ensure that people who are decent and hard working but not smart can lead decent lives, to name two examples.
On the other hand, weren't these conditions common among Europeans and immigrants to the US a century ago or so?
It's bad, and should be remedied, but let's not go overboard.
Excuse me for pointing this out, but restoring Ethiopian men to a fine status as human workhorses, in a land where pumps are driven and plows pulled by people in harness, is not going to improve Ethiopia's position in the world.
If the country is lacking in human capital, the most probable reason would be that attractiveness of other stronger economies, luring Ethiopians who can afford to travel. For example, the "strong traditional ties" between the Phillipines and the US result in the Phillipines having a nursing shortage while hospitals in the US keep wages down by employing Phillipine nurses.
Nor, in fact, have I any reason to suppose that Ethiopians will find it easier to learn, or stay in school longer, if they're better nourished- not because I think nutrition doesn't matter, but because I suspect that most Ethiopian schools are just not very pleasant or interesting places to be.
It would be nice if everyone had enough to eat. The world grows enough food for everyone to have a good diet. And the "missionary" approach of assuming that this problem can be solved by teaching backward people how to cook is a proven failure. Time to try something new that has actual relevance to the dynamics of the problem.
Serial Catowner, the article's not talking about adding a couple inches of height for a few pounds of muscle mass. The missing nutrients in the diets of many Ethiopians can mean going through life with massive goiters, a stunted body, chronic health problems, and/or mental retardation. What aid agencies and the Ethiopian government (when not making war on their neighbors) are trying to do are things like adding iodine to salt and folic acid to cooking flour-- cheap public health measures that the West has been doing for decades, with great results. And a country like Ethiopia, with mostly highland soils that have been exhausted by thousands of years of cultivation (Ethiopia seems to have invented agriculture independently), is particularly vulnerable to micronutrient deficiency. It has nothing to do with people there being backward; they were simply dealt a bad hand by geography.
Hank Scorpio asks why I write about both nurture and nature.
Well, because the human world is extremely complicated, and therefore you need a well-stocked conceptual toolkit to begin to understand it. Ignoring genetics in thinking about humanity would be as self-defeating as ignoring culture.
People that talk about genetic differences always seem to have the better genes. Funny that.
No, that's not true at all. One obvious example is psychologist Richard Lynn, who, more than anybody else, established that Northeastern Asians average about five points higher in IQ than Europeans and white Americans.
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