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_aHC800 _b.M37 1997 |
| 100 | 1 | _aMaren, Michael. | |
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_aThe road to hell : _bthe ravaging effects of foreign aid and international charity / _cMichael Maren. |
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_aNew York, NY : _bFree Press, _c1997. |
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_axiv, 302 p. ; _c24 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | _aMichael 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. | ||
| 520 | 8 | _aHow 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. | |
| 520 | 8 | _aAnd 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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_aEconomic assistance _zAfrica. |
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_aCharities _zAfrica _xManagement. |
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_aCharities _xCorrupt practices _zAfrica. |
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_aAfrica _xEconomic conditions _y1960- |
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