Firstly, the paper accepts the 'reality' of 'economic liberalisation' and globalisation. From a business perspective the developing countries contain a majority of the population in the faster growing countries. In other words, Clare Short would have us believe that businesses are not motivated by the hunt for bigger profits and cheaper labour, but that they have a 'shared interest' in eradicating poverty. The gap between the rich and the poor is growing larger and larger, at a faster and faster rate. That could not possibly happen if the rich and their businesses were seeking to spread their wealth in the interests of the poor.
International charities have similarly disastrous consequences for their supposed benefactors.
Maren gives so many examples of the ravaging effects of good intentions that it is hard to imagine a 'good project'. The horror stories are not the inadvertent consequences of good intentions. They are the inevitable outcome of the colonial attitude that rich people in the West can show the rest of the world how to live.