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

Linda Polman This is sickening. The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? Watch Jon Stewart talk to Linda Polman, the author of Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong With Humanitarian Aid? Towards the end of the course we discussed our futures in aid work and what paths we can choose from as soon-to-be college grads. Her new book is an examination of humanitarian aid, the industry that has grown up around it and a frank examination of how much help is afforded the recipients for the money given. 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. At the end of class, The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? The book quickly gained my interest Banderjee and Duflo situate their book in the midst of the contrasting views of Jeffery Sachs and William Easterly, to examine if the world's most impoverished are caught in what they refer to as the “poverty trap”. One part review of Linda Polman's “The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?”, it's a very powerful and thought provoking article its own right. The book lays out how exploited is humanitaian aid that it in some cases creates the very misery it is intended to alleviate. The Crisis Caravan, a well-crafted criticism of international aid by journalist Linda Polman, highlights the growing yet spastic momentum of the international community to take on humanitarian crises.