Problem‑Farming Incentives

Long‑lived NGOs, government bodies, and transnational institutions face incentives to cultivate, exaggerate, or perpetuate social problems because the existence of a persistent problem funds jobs, budgets and donor narratives. When the organizational survival logic rewards crisis production, solutions become performative and scandals or data‑gaming may follow. — If true, this changes how journalists, funders, and policymakers evaluate claims of crisis and shapes oversight, auditing, and funding rules for civil‑society actors and public agencies.