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Wisteria
Low Budget
To Do
The goal here is to make every dollar count, by finding a way to do
the maximum good with the lowest aid investment. Tasks:
- Find the Aid Package that yields the lowest death toll.
- You don't have to spend 4 points on aid every year. You can spend more at
the beginning, or spend less over a longer period of time. Does a burst of
spending at the beginning, or spreading out the spending, help?
- Is this budget "enough"? What would be enough?
- Optional : Using your best aid package, try turning capacity
effects on. Do your conclusions change?
Discussion
Please see the Wisteria Intro Scenario page for
a description of Wisteria itself.
Wisteria Low Budget differs from Wisteria Intro in that aid stops when
you meet or exceed 24 aid points spent. At the recommended 4 points per year,
this is 30 years of aid, followed by 50 years of no aid, for the basic 80-year
projection. Wisteria Low Budget differs from Wisteria Budget in that there is
a different (cheaper) set of preset aid packages to choose from, in accordance
with the 4 point per-step budget and lower overall budget (time span).
Wisteria Low Budget focuses on how to make the greatest long term difference
by making small changes in the short term. Even in the "Low Budget" Scenario,
note that these aid infusions are vast. Fictional Wisteria has a population
of 10 million, comparable in size to
Somalia (10 million) or Guatemala (11 million). One "point" of aid feeds 1% of the population.
For a country of 10 million, that is 100,000 people per year
for 5 years, or half a million person-years of food in one aid point.
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