The politicization of humanitarian aid poses a huge moral dilemma for NGO workers.
Does Providing Aid in War Zones Do More Harm Than Good?
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The New Wave of NGOs in Slovakia and East-Central Europe
The new NGOs are designed to both provide direct service and to put pressure on the increasingly authoritarian Slovakian government.
Organizing the Public in East-Central Europe
NGOs devoted to public works paradoxically became part of the wave of privatization that swept the region.
Haiti’s Reconstruction: Who Benefits?
Georges Marie is a proud and angry Haitian lawyer who lost her husband in the earthquake. As she mourned, the humanitarian industry exploded. She watched with concern as Port au Prince’s narrow streets became clogged with white Land Rovers, each stamped with an aid agency logo on the driver’s door. It still rankles her when the humanitarians dine and dance in a four-star restaurant overlooking the Place Boyer, a public square now strung with tarps, home to some of the million-plus people still displaced from the 2010 earthquake.
World Bank Shuts Out Dissident Voices
To the bankers and government officials who descended on the city state for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings in September, Singapore may have looked like the perfect model of a globalized consumer society. Tellingly, for the first time, the annual meetings took place inside a giant shopping mall. Corporate logos dominated the venue, shoppers went happily about fulfilling their consumer duties, and the delegates were shrouded in a constant cloud of Muzak.