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  The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? (Hardback)(Dutch; Flemish / English) By (author) Linda Polman, Translated by Liz Waters

  

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  Short Description for The Crisis CaravanA 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.
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  • Publisher: Metropolitan Books
  • Published: 14 September 2010
  • Format: Hardback 229 pages
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  • Categories: Social Impact Of Disasters | Aid & Relief Programmes | Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)
  • ISBN 13: 9780805092905 ISBN 10: 0805092900
  • Sales rank: 204,812

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• A no-holds-barred, controversial expose of the financial profiteering and ambiguous ethics that pervade the world of humanitarian aidA 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.