“What we call aid money serves only to strengthen the structures that generate poverty. Aid money never reaches those victims who, having lost their real assets, look for alternative ways of life outside the globalised system of production which are better suited to their needs.”
Majid Rahnema
Quand La Misère Chasse La Pauvreté: Essai
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