The Debate on Development Aid in the United States

Bill McKibben: I'm thinking of perhaps a surprising parallel between your response to Bill and the kind of response that I as a liberal would give to many advocates of what I've started to call the identity synthesis. The sort of identitarian set of thoughts on the left which is very often say look we've universal values and neutral rules but in fact some people are discriminated against, he says. He argues development aid money goes more to be watching transport authority than to be government of Uganda so why should we trust the system to ever get better? "I still think you can point to every dollar was worth pushing into the system because what came out of the other end is so wonderful that it

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