
14: David Miliband: The Age of Impunity
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Challenge of Dismantling the Development Community
There is a problem in the development community, which is we can always justify our jobs. I think it's difficult to objectively step back when we've built an entire industry as well of 23,000 employees. The fact that there are now 340 million people in humanitarian need and 700 million people in poverty living on less than $2 a day shows you that the collective effort is not going in the right direction. And who are the best countries in the world at the moment of development and humanitarian support? You know, would you say that the United Nations tries to do a great job, but it's very, very difficult...
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