Aid / NGOs
Articles about NGOs, ordered by date. 
Beware philanthrocapitalism
Why it isn't necessarily an unmitigated boon for the poor.
35 years ago...
Chris Brazier looks back at an issue of New Internationalist from 1979 on foreign aid.
The unwelcome return of development pornography
John Hilary on a degrading spectacle that keeps coming back.
What is the right response to the Ebola crisis?
MSF respond to charges against the way they operate in Sierra Leone.
Contested territory
Accused by the government of stalling development and by critics on the Left of not being radical enough, NGOs in India are facing many challenges. Dionne Bunsha reports.
Evicted by charity
The green imperialism of some conservation charities, by Sophie Pritchard.
Aiding and abetting
Cartoonist Polyp’s satirical take on field work.
The company they keep
Big NGOs and big corporations – Ian Brown finds they are getting a bit too close.
NGOs - do they help?
There are more NGOs today than ever; some are bigger than ever. Yet, discovers Dinyar Godrej, questions persist about their role.
The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions
Microsoft's former CEO has made massive donations to global health programmes but an investigation by Andrew Bowman reveals some unpleasant side-effects.
Guns and Bread: how mercenaries moved into aid
Michael Lewis explores what happens when private security companies muscle in to 'deliver aid'.
Haiti: where did all the money go?
More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the cash? Nick Harvey investigates.
Haiti two years on: beyond relief, beyond belief
Haiti is not just recovering from the
earthquake but from the political and
economic interventions of recent decades, as
Phillip Wearne explains.
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