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Dr. Paul Farmer Talks the Talk, but Fails to Walk the Walk by Stanley Lucas

Rasoul Janvier - October 25 2011, 10:52 PM

Dr. Paul Farmer Talks the Talk, but Fails to Walk the Walk by Stanley Lucas
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Dr. Farmer gets a lot of the issues right in his book, "Haiti After the Earthquake", including one of his central points: public and private aid has bypassed Haitian institutions further weakening the country and the government to the point where it was unable to even respond to the earthquake.

This is the primary reason why Haiti has come to be known as the "Republic of NGOs".

Dr. Farmer also correctly points out that some NGOs do this intentionally (to keep getting their funding) and some unintentionally.

This process of bypassing of Haitian institutions is truly the central reason that the more than $20 billion in aid Haiti has received over the past few decades has really left no lasting mark on the country.

However, Dr. Farmer seems to try to have it both ways. While he recognizes that bypassing Haitian institutions is a critical problem and touts his and President Clinton

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