In many countries, rich landowners are known to hire thugs to intimidate and even murder villagers who dare to protest or organize self-help cooperatives. Only projects that reinforce the poor's initiatives to tackle the extreme inequalities in power within the village have a chance of improving the lives of the majority. However, most governments are unlikely to look kindly on such activities, for fear of antagonizing powerful elites. To do so may mislead, for it is so easy to lose sight of the big picture. Such questions point us to what we call the iceberg.
Foreign aid is only the tip.
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