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Killing with Kindness

Paperback • 2012 • English

Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs

By Mark Schuller

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About the book

Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology After Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear stories of misery from Haiti. Why have NGOs failed at their mission? Set in Haiti during the 2004 coup and aftermath and enhanced by research conducted after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes t...Show more

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ISBN

9780813553634

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Killing with Kindness

Format

Paperback

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