Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid International Charity - Tapa dura

Maren, Mic

 
9780684828008: Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid International Charity
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ISBN 10: 0684828006 ISBN 13: 9780684828008
Editorial: The Free Press, 1997

Sinopsis

Michael Maren has spent much of the last twenty years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist. He witnessed at close range a harrowing series of wars, famines, and natural disasters. In The Road to Hell he tells how CARE unwittingly assisted a Somali dictator in building a political and economic powerbase. How the UN, Save the Children, and many other nongovernmental organizations provided raw materials for ethnic factions who subsequently threatened genocidal massacres in Rwanda and Burundi. He brings firsthand reports of African farmers, Western aid workers, and corrupt politicians from many countries, joined together in a vicious circle of self-interest. Above all, he heralds an important truth: humanitarian intervention and foreign aid activity is necessarily political. It gets hijacked by powerful charities and agricultural interests. It is cynically manipulated by local strongmen to control rebellious populations. And it is the last refuge of Western colonialism.
We all want to end the suffering. But our desire to alleviate suffering often stands in the way of the truth. If you think your charitable giving is making the Third World a better place, think again.

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Reseña del editor

A stunning personal narrative of best intentions gone awry, Michael Maren, at one time an aid worker and journalist in Somalia, writes of the failure of international charities, such as CARE and Save the Children, who he claims does anything but. Maren also attacks the United Nation's "humanitarian" missions are controlled by agribusinesses and infighting bureaucrats.

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Editorial
The Free Press
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0684828006
ISBN 13 
9780684828008
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
316
Contacto del fabricante
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9780614198751: The Road to Hell: How International Charity & Food Aid Damage the Third World

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ISBN 10:  0614198755 ISBN 13:  9780614198751
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