Foregone Pareto improvements?
Tyler Cowen referred to this as a Foregone Pareto Improvement:
In Kenya, four million people are facing hunger due to severe drought. A New Zealand dog food manufacturer offered to donate 6,000 emergency packs of dog food mixture to help feed Kenyan orphans. A Kenyan government spokesman said: 'We appreciate the offer, but we dismiss it as culturally insulting.
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