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The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? by Linda Polman
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- Condition
- Like New
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780805092905
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805092900
ISBN-13
9780805092905
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84215904
Product Key Features
Original Language
Dutch
Book Title
Crisis Caravan : What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Ngos (Non-Governmental Organizations), Disasters & Disaster Relief
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-004825
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Particularly timely just now… Polman finds moral hazard on display wherever aid workers are deployed. In case after case, a persuasive argument can be made that, over-all, humanitarian aid did as much or even more harm than good… Her style is brusque, hard-boiled, with a satirist's taste for gallows humor. Her basic stance is: J'accuse ." -Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker
Dewey Decimal
361.2/6
Synopsis
A vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid: a cavalcade of organizations--some 37,000--compete for a share of the $160 billion annual prize. Polman argues that it is time to impose ethical boundaries, to question whether doing something is always better than doing nothing, and to hold humanitarians responsible for the consequences of their deeds., A no-holds-barred, controversial exposé of the financial profiteering and ambiguous ethics that pervade the world of humanitarian aid A vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid: a cavalcade of organizations-some 37,000-compete for a share of the $160 billion annual prize, with "fact-inflation" sometimes ramping up disaster coverage to draw in more funds. Insurgents and warring governments, meanwhile, have made aid a permanent feature of military strategy: refugee camps serve as base camps for genocidaires, and aid supplies are diverted to feed the troops. Even as humanitarian groups continue to assert the holy principle of impartiality, they have increasingly become participants in aid's abuses. In a narrative that is impassioned, gripping, and even darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman takes us to war zones around the globe-from the NGO-dense operations in "Afghaniscam" to the floating clinics of Texas Mercy Ships proselytizing off the shores of West Africa-to show the often compromised results of aid workers' best intentions. It is time, Polman argues, to impose ethical boundaries, to question whether doing something is always better than doing nothing, and to hold humanitarians responsible for the consequences of their deeds.
LC Classification Number
HV553.P65 2010
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