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The Crisis Caravan What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Crisis Caravan What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

By Linda Polman

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About the book

In her controversial, no-holds-barred exposé Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravan takes us to war zones around the globe, showing how aid operations and the humanitarian world have become a feature of military strategy. Impassioned, gripping, and even darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman "gives some powerful examples of unconscionable assistance...a world where aid workers have become enablers of the atrocities they seek to relieve" (T...Show more

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9780312610586

Publisher

Picador

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Crisis Caravan What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

Format

Paperback

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