Drivers for change the world

STRATEGY


What are the drivers for change in the world?
The first things that come to my mind during this brainstorm are money and power.

For many decades countries and organizations have strived to obtain stability and peace around the world. Such strife includes the turbulence in the Middle East, the prevalent poverty throughout the third-world countries, the AIDS epidemic, and equal rights for minorities, etc. Even though countries and organizations actually spend a lot of effort and money into these projects I don’t believe they do such actions out of the goodness of their hearts. Of course not, they do it because they get something in return. Primarily this return would be money or power.
Take the European Union for example. The EU claims that they want to help the third-world nations in their efforts to stabilize their economies. Currently the seventy countries in Africa are getting financial assistance from the European Development Fund, (The Lomé Conv...