The connection between Nigerian cashew farmers and Devi Shetty’s pediatric cardiac surgery is that they both represent decentralized private activity, undertaken through the market, unlike the operations of the China National Petroleum Corporation, Sinopec, and others in Darfur and elsewhere.��They all add value, but decentralized market-based activity appears likelier to engender additional goodwill. But there is more reshaping to come, again fostered by mutual self-interest, rather than by fiat.