Home Grown Glory: Parables of Developmental Aid to the World's Impoverished

In response to the myriad of complexly interconnected health and socioeconomic problems that wreak their worst destruction in the world’s poorest communities, an equally complex developmental-aid industry powered by the West has arisen. While appearing enormously beneficial in intent, expertise, and finances, it often perpetuates dependence and yields mediocre long-term results, due to its massive systemic, impersonal, autocratic, self-enhancing, and shallow programmatic nature.

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