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The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? Linda Polman
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.

Phillip Gourevitch has written “Alms Dealers” in the October 11, 2010 New Yorker Magazine in which he reviews “The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid”, a book by Linda Polman. Linda Polman, The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?, Metropolitan Books, 2010; $24.00, 229 pp. In August 2010, the worst floods in recent history struck Pakistan, precipitating a humanitarian crisis and widespread destruction of health infrastructure and loss of access to clean water. Does the modern humanitarian-aid industry help create the kind of misery it is supposed to redress? But I also reread Linda Polman´s The Crisis Caravan (In Dutch: De crisiskaravaan. The book paints a pretty depressing picture of the crisis aid industry. The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? Philip Gourevitch, "A Critic at Large: Alms Dealers: Can You Provide Humanitarian Aid Without Facilitating Conflicts?" New Yorker, 10/11/10, p102 et seq, reviewing Linda Polman, The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Dutch journalist Linda Polman, author of The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? The UN Development Program estimates that there could be 37,000 international nongovernmental organizations with some relevance for what Linda Polman calls “the crisis caravan,” and that on average 1,000 international and local nongovernmental This recommendation is not a self-serving justification by a researcher but a conviction that more data-based social scientific reflection and less visceral reaction would help the humanitarian business function better. That is the central contention of Polman's new book, “The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? For some authors such as Linda Polman, the aid industry per se is part of the problem. Achter de schermen van de noodhulpindustrie). The scale of these epidemics is already alarmingly large with the trend continuing to move in the wrong direction, despite the best intentions of organizations providing medical aid (Pakistan Humanitarian Forum, 2011). But Linda Polman, author of The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? In her controversial books The Crisis Caravan: What's wrong with Humanitarian Aid? To bring home an innocent American from North America, our distinguished former president recently made the journey to Pyongyang -- the only president we have humble enough to undertake such a humanitarian mission. What's wrong with humanitarian aid?