[governance] FW: An Interesting Review of A Book on Jeff Sachs and the Millennium Villages--Re: WSIS +10

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Thanks for sharing. This seems something that is pervasive across parts of civil society and not just new NGOs

A third lesson is about hubris, and the penchant in outsiders—so evident in the creation every year of hundreds of tiny new NGOs sending starry-eyed voluntourists off to build schools and clinics in Africa—to think they have the answer, and to believe that the world (or Africa) began on the day their plane landed in Nairobi

--srs (iPad)

> On 21-Nov-2013, at 22:12, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A third lesson is about hubris, and the penchant in outsiders—so evident in the creation every year of hundreds of tiny new NGOs sending starry-eyed voluntourists off to build schools and clinics in Africa—to think they have the answer, and to believe that the world (or Africa) began on the day their plane landed in Nairobi. They should all read this book before takeoff. Or sooner. And there is another lesson. As Nina Munk puts it, “Oversimplification is terribly dangerous.”
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> The book will probably be seen as another in the growing list of attacks on foreign aid. It is not that. If there is a criticism to be made, it’s in the subtitle. The book is not about Jeffery Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. It’s about Jeffrey Sachs and His Quest to end Poverty. The
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