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Sometimes good intentions go wrong. It’s bad enough when it happens on a small scale, as when an intended compliment of today’s haircut turns into an insult of last week’s haircut; but it can be tragic when it happens on a large scale, as when international aid and investment projects with the ostensible goal of helping people actually turns out to harm the so-called beneficiaries. As I heard tonight, help forced upon you isn’t really help. Continue reading →