The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
“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“A reporting tour de force, devastating.”—The Sunday Times(London)“Marvelous, cool, brusque, fearless.” —The Guardian(London)“Ms. Polman’s prose is scorching.”—The Economist“A disturbing account…Raises profound questions not just about the palliative efficacy of aid, but whether it fuels and prolongs conflict.” —Financial Times