Two interesting articles about aid

[fpb]

I think the impulse to help is natural and inevitable, but there is at least something to be said against institutionalizing it. I did have severe instinctive objections to the establishment circus that African aid has become in recent weeks, and these articles supply reasons to suspect it.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,363604,00.html
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html
We may not buy everything they say, but at least they are worth thinking about.

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[bufo-viridis.livejournal.com]

And some answers for the critics, from the same source:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,363890,00.html

The most important thing there, I think, it's turning towards work with local NGOs. They're most likely to know what's all about and besides if we want democracy there, grassroot movement is necessary, and NGOs are important factor in it.