That makes two silly politicians with a limited grasp of reality, then. The Tobin tax seems like a good idea in theory, but it'd be a bugger to implement. It's tricky enough to get a couple of hundred countries just to sign a piece of paper, let alone do what it says on the paper.

I'm still waiting for the rich countries to lower their agricultural tariffs. That'd probably do more for poor countries than any development budget that greasy politicians are probably going to steal 2/3 of.