The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity Michael Maren

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Despite the overstated title, this book is a forceful and disturbing portrait of Western intervention in Somalia, plus an investigation of underscrutinized aid foundations. Perhaps because of the book"s ambition, Maren"s narrative is disjointed, but readers will find it worth the effort. "[D]oing relief and development work in the context of oppression is counterproductive," he asserts, and his personal experience in Somalia, where, after a Peace Corps stint in Kenya, he returned as an aid worker and journalist, bears this out. While the Cold War fueled aid to Somalia, much of the aid was channeled by local power brokers to further their own ends. Indeed, while Somalia was once self-sufficient, it is now chronically dependent on imports of foreign food. Maren is equally scathing about prominent charities such as CARE and Save the Children, which he terms mercenaries more concerned with self-perpetuation than actual famine relief. CARE, he charges, once shipped food to armed fighters in Somalia, while Save the Children "projects don"t work." His portrait of the aid biz emphasizes that it is driven mainly by grain-trading companies eager to unload excess capacity, even as their advertisements feature starving victims. Maren"s brief report from Rwanda suggests that there, too, aid is falling into the wrong hands and thus financing a war. Maren maintains that journalists are too dependent on such aid organizations to properly evaluate them, and he proposes that an independent agency be established for that purpose. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity (Michael Maren)

Полное название книги Michael Maren The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity
Автор Michael Maren
Ключевые слова рост и развитие
Категории Деловая литература, Экономика
ISBN 743227867
Издательство Free Press
Год 2002
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