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DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION* CLAIMS ALTRUISM AND MORALITY, BUT IS DRIVEN BY AN IMAGE OF MORAL SUPERIORITY.

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November 20th, 2011 by Claudio Schuftan

Food for a not really altruistic thought   Human Rights Reader 276   The human rights-based framework opens our eyes to the outdated traditional model of aid. Since the new human rights narrative focuses on global justice and on pluralism, it criticizes international development agencies as ‘a cosmopolitan elite that is wrongfully embracing Globalization’ and [...]

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An indictment of foreign aid: Is it too late?

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August 11th, 2009 by Matthew Anderson

States do not have friends, only interests. (Charles de Gaulle)   1. As we have it now, foreign aid is instrumental in decreasing constructive social, economic, and political tensions and internal contradictions that would tend, sooner or later,  redress or resolve the growing imbalances and injustices of the prevailing internal exploitative system in many a [...]

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