Referring to a hard-hitting piece, William Easterly clarifies his position on aid (as he often does). The piece concludes:
"Most of us believe that humanitarian aid is a morally pure way to respond to suffering in the world. But what if our good intentions are just a newer version of colonialism? That’s what Mr. Gill thinks. “The colonial mindset of ‘we-know-best’ has surely persisted,” he writes. The trouble is that we haven’t learned the difference between doing good and feeling good. Until we do, many of our aid efforts will be worse than useless."
The position of the aid critics would appear to be supported by this story of aid workers stealing aid money.
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