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The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business ペーパーバック – 1994/1/10
英語版
Graham Hancock
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Each year some sixty billion dollars are spent on foreign aid throughout the world. Whether in donations to charities such as Save the Children, Oxfam, CARE, UNICEF, or the Red Cross, in the form of enormous loans from the World Bank, or as direct payments from one government to another, the money is earmarked for the needy, for relief in natural disastersfloods or famines, earthquakes, or droughtsand for assistance in the development of nations.
The magnitude of generosity from the world’s wealthy nations suggests the possibility of easing, if not eliminating, hunger, misery, and poverty; in truth, however, only a small portion of this sixty billion dollars is ever translated into direct assistance. Thanks to bureaucratic inefficiency, misguided policies, large executive salaries, political corruption, and the self-perpetuating overhead” of the administrative agencies, much of this tremendous wealth is frittered away, as Graham Hancock’s alarming and comprehensive book reveals. Hancock cuts through the smoke screens and hot air of the aristocracy of mercy” to provide a critical look at a multinational business that has never been subject to strict accountability.
Lords of Poverty is a case study in betrayals of a public trust. The shortcomings of aid are numerous, and serious enough to raise questions about the viability of the practice at its most fundamental levels. Hancock’s report is thorough, deeply shocking, and certain to cause critical reevaluationof the government’s motives in giving foreign aid, and of the true needs of our intended beneficiaries.
The magnitude of generosity from the world’s wealthy nations suggests the possibility of easing, if not eliminating, hunger, misery, and poverty; in truth, however, only a small portion of this sixty billion dollars is ever translated into direct assistance. Thanks to bureaucratic inefficiency, misguided policies, large executive salaries, political corruption, and the self-perpetuating overhead” of the administrative agencies, much of this tremendous wealth is frittered away, as Graham Hancock’s alarming and comprehensive book reveals. Hancock cuts through the smoke screens and hot air of the aristocracy of mercy” to provide a critical look at a multinational business that has never been subject to strict accountability.
Lords of Poverty is a case study in betrayals of a public trust. The shortcomings of aid are numerous, and serious enough to raise questions about the viability of the practice at its most fundamental levels. Hancock’s report is thorough, deeply shocking, and certain to cause critical reevaluationof the government’s motives in giving foreign aid, and of the true needs of our intended beneficiaries.
- 本の長さ256ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Atlantic Monthly Press
- 発売日1994/1/10
- 寸法13.97 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-100871134691
- ISBN-13978-0871134691
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- 出版社 : Atlantic Monthly Press; Reprint版 (1994/1/10)
- 発売日 : 1994/1/10
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 256ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0871134691
- ISBN-13 : 978-0871134691
- 寸法 : 13.97 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm
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Tim
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Five Stars
2017年3月23日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Every socialist should read this book to understand how they are destroying Africa.
CNR
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This is an amazing book - I wish the author had stayed on ...
2015年1月18日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This is an amazing book - I wish the author had stayed on the trail of this as the problem is as big now as it ever was. It's often mistaken for applying to charities. It isn't. It's a revelation about what happens to taxpayers money that is diverted to international aid. It deserved to have had a bigger impact.
Tom Munro
5つ星のうち5.0
A spirited rant
2003年7月27日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This book has the flavour of someone who has stewed over the question of foriegn aid for some time and then suddenly this book has been an outpouring of every bit of frustration ever felt by the author. From looking at his other books it appears that he is a person with a thorough background in the industry.
The book is one of the most daming that I have read. Although short the book marshals its facts and explains every argument with a clarity that is breathtaking.
The arguments are that the organisations which are involved in providing aid are incompetent. There are a number of reasons for the incompetance but all orginsations which deal with aid are incompetant and corrupt.
At the head of the list is the world bank. The world bank is willing to make grants of aid conditional on changes to monetary policy and dismanteling of anti competative market systems but it never wants to make aid conditional on introducing human rights or democracy. As a result changes to make the market more competative almost always damage the poor by for example the removal of food subsidies. The benifits of World Bank loans almost always flow to the middle class or urban dwellers. The Indian Economist Sen has shown that democracies do not have famines. If the world bank was to make democracy the condition of aid packages it would be more likely to reduce famines in these countries. In fact govermental corruption or incompetance is the real reason for the sorts of problems which require aid in the first place.
The world bank is addicted to large capital intensive projects. Most of these turn out to be white elephants and have unsustainable maintence costs. Again the benifits of electification or transport benifits mainly the urban centres.
Those who are responsible for aid projects are overpaid, come from foriegn countries and lack language skills to properly evlaute projects. The result is that huge amounts of aid are used to pay for incompetant staff at aid bodies.
The author says that the proof of the pudding is that those countries which have had huge amounts of aid have simply gotten poorer. Aid projects have generally failed. The world would be a better place without any aid at all.
Whilst this is an extreme position the book is a valuable addition to debate in the area.
The book is one of the most daming that I have read. Although short the book marshals its facts and explains every argument with a clarity that is breathtaking.
The arguments are that the organisations which are involved in providing aid are incompetent. There are a number of reasons for the incompetance but all orginsations which deal with aid are incompetant and corrupt.
At the head of the list is the world bank. The world bank is willing to make grants of aid conditional on changes to monetary policy and dismanteling of anti competative market systems but it never wants to make aid conditional on introducing human rights or democracy. As a result changes to make the market more competative almost always damage the poor by for example the removal of food subsidies. The benifits of World Bank loans almost always flow to the middle class or urban dwellers. The Indian Economist Sen has shown that democracies do not have famines. If the world bank was to make democracy the condition of aid packages it would be more likely to reduce famines in these countries. In fact govermental corruption or incompetance is the real reason for the sorts of problems which require aid in the first place.
The world bank is addicted to large capital intensive projects. Most of these turn out to be white elephants and have unsustainable maintence costs. Again the benifits of electification or transport benifits mainly the urban centres.
Those who are responsible for aid projects are overpaid, come from foriegn countries and lack language skills to properly evlaute projects. The result is that huge amounts of aid are used to pay for incompetant staff at aid bodies.
The author says that the proof of the pudding is that those countries which have had huge amounts of aid have simply gotten poorer. Aid projects have generally failed. The world would be a better place without any aid at all.
Whilst this is an extreme position the book is a valuable addition to debate in the area.
Jasen Joseph Hylbert
5つ星のうち5.0
In reality the figurative "robin hood" has a conflict of interest at best and is a welfare fraud worshipping rapist
2018年1月23日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Not read much yet, but a factual premise. In reality the figurative "robin hood" has a conflict of interest at best and is a welfare fraud worshipping rapist. He could have said let's emulate those who plant food and raise livestock and game and save and build things up, but apparently to some living like baboons seems natural. The fact is that humans are distant from baboons and emulating baboon culture is intolerable and proven beyond any shade of reasonable doubt to be self defeating in long terms/ generationally.
h Adams
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Perfect read
2018年12月1日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Perfect insight to the world of NGO’s and the amount of fraud that is instilled into it