Word: oxfam
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...purpose, our own unity, our own organized capabilities were the only things that we could count on to succeed." Alone in Africa, Eritrea carries little debt and accepts virtually no foreign assistance. Over the past four years, it has asked all but six aid providers to leave, including Oxfam and every religious organization. "It's not that we don't need the money," says Issaias, "but we don't want the dependence." Aid, he says, subsidizes but corrupts the government, blocks innovative solutions to problems, so that people do not seek out and use their own resources...
...some think it may even do more harm than good. "When the IMF was in Latin America, they faced the typical hyperinflation problem and they knew what they were doing," notes Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw. "But in Asia the prescription is far less clear." Kevin Watkins of Oxfam--an Oxford-based, nongovernment development agency--says the IMF may shortcut Asia's recent progress. "What differentiates East Asia has been its ability to create growth with equity," he says. "Now the IMF programs threaten to break that link. You may have growth, but with continued poverty...
Alarming as they were, the first, unconfirmed reports turned out to be understated. "We are lying prone on the floor," Christian Georlette, an aid worker for Oxfam, managed to phone back to the British aid group's headquarters on Thursday. "Every window in the house has been shattered by shrapnel and machine-gun fire, and soldiers are attacking the house next door with grenades. The fighting is really bad." Only later, however, would the full carnage of the latest ethnic violence in Rwanda be confirmed: the streets littered with corpses; the thousands killed in less than three days; the murder...
...Oxfam Hunger Banquet. In addition tospeakers, music and a slide show, participantsdraw lots to determine whether they will eat ameal similar to that eaten each day by one of theworld's "upper income," "middle income," or "lowerincome" peoples. Dudley House, Dining Room, 7 p.m.$5. Tickets are available by calling...
John Hammock, Executive Director of Oxfam America, said the report could actually help anti-Aristide force remain in power...