Trade liberalization, making the poor even poorer?
Take the case of Haiti: Rice is the staple food of Haiti and up until the 1980s Haiti was self-sufficient in its production. In the mid-1980s Haiti’s domestic rice production decreased rapidly. By the...
View ArticleRevisiting Dead Aid and rethinking the “Make Believe” in international aid.
This post is somehow a follow-up on my early thoughts in The shrinking digital divide and other aid fairy tales. I have been reading in “Dead Aid” by Dambisa Moyo, a book I have mentioned before....
View ArticleThe collapse of humanitarian aid ?
Bad news all around in the aid world. It is difficult, as an aidworker, to remain positive these days, and to see a light at the end of the tunnel of poverty. Oxfam, one of the leading UK aid...
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