United Nations plots a global lottery
Given the widely acknowledged regressive nature of raising funds through lotteries, Inner City Press asked Douste-Blazy if a lottery was really the best or most innovative way to try to help the poor. "You mean, on the ethical plane?" Douste-Blazy asked. Yes, that would be the question.
While agreeing that this is "a real question", Douste-Blazy spoke of the social goals of lotteries in Belgium and France. "We are working on it," he said. And he’s not kidding - "global lottery" has been mentioned before in this context by the UN, in a report of a panel discussion on "Moving Out Of Aid Dependency" from November of 2007.
Douste-Blazy also discussed raising funds off airplane tickets, saying there are only three main sites that make reservations over the Internet.
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