Posts Tagged ‘aid’

November 28, 2007

Forget fish. Teach a man–an Afghan man–to make soap. And then take all his money.

This is a tantalizing–and for that reason, far too short–look at the way U.S. foreign aid works. Albeit in a single country. In a single province. On a single project. Sarah Chayes was a journalist until the fall of Afghanistan, where she gave up her NPR job to see how I would do if confronted [...]