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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (24474)	8/23/2001 9:49:28 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 82486

Don't get me started on the Peace Corps, which is more of a government-sponsored travel agency than anything else. Could be very useful, generally has not been. Relief aid is short term, and deals with an emergency or natural disaster. Most refugee crises fall into this category. Relief aid aims simply to keep people alive and reasonably healthy until they can resume normal life. Development aid aims at addressing underlying problems, building self-sufficiency, and ultimately making itself unnecessary. It poses less immediate problems, but in many ways much more difficult ones. This is what you see AID, the World Bank and the regional development banks, and many independent organizations doing. Levels of success vary a great deal, not because the people involved are inept, but because the problems and contradictions involved are very knotty indeed.