International humanitarian assistance is a multibillion dollar enterprise, but is much of the aid doing more harm than good?You can watch the full BBC Hard Talk interview here.
That is the controversial question raised by Linda Polman, a Dutch writer and journalist who has covered conflict and humanitarian crises from Haiti to Darfur, eastern Congo and Afghanistan.
There are situations, she says, in which the best thing the aid givers can do is walk away. HARDtalk asks if that means turning our backs on a world of human suffering.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Aid industry: "More harm than good"? from BBC News | Business | UK Edition
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