What has made the World Bank almost uniquely successful over the last half-century has been its sustained focus on the most important humanitarian goal: lessening poverty.
(The filmmakers mention that Angola has become an important oil source for the United States, making the health of soldiers a strategic as well as humanitarian goal).
Along these lines, an S.E.C. commissioner, Troy A. Paredes, wrote that he voted against the rules because they failed to assess "whether and, if so, the extent to which the final rule will in fact advance its humanitarian goal as opposed to unintentionally making matters worse".
"How do you balance the humanitarian goal that citizen children get the care they need to grow and be nurtured as human beings, without encouraging illegal immigration by allowing parents to use children as a grappling hook?" But the mother has a far different perspective.
The Vasat project is not the first time Balaji has tackled such an ambitious technological goal along with such a vital humanitarian goal.
And if we achieve that, it's fundamentally a humanitarian goal.
