UN’s $5.7B anti-poverty agency doesn’t do much to reduce poverty, according to its own assessment

By George Russell  Published January 14, 2013 FoxNews.com

The $5.7 billion United Nations Development Program bills itself as the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency, but when it comes to actually helping the world’s 1.3 billion desperately poor people, that description appears to be more of a facade, according to a report commissioned by UNDP itself that is slated for closed-door discussion at the end of this month.  According to the document, UNDP’s efforts often have “only remote connections with poverty.” Its anti-poverty programs are “disconnected,” and are frequently “seriously compromised” by a lack of follow-up to help poor countries learn “what works and why.” To Read More….. 

My Take – I don’t understand why anyone has trouble understanding why the UN would be unsuccessful at anything.  They are incompetent and corrupt beyond measure.  I have no doubt that absolutely no one knows where the vast majority of this money went, in spite of the fact that virtually everything the UN involves itself in massive amounts of money is wasted---or stolen--- and they still want to give them billions expecting them to accomplish grandiose feats in spite of years of absolute failure in all of their existence.   So why in the world would they be granted continued funding to do what they have been abject failures at in the past?   Now that really is insanity.