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Development aid / charity could not have as much overhead and go to the country's citizens, government, and/or businesses/nonprofits

By Hicbd
Fri Jul 23 2021 6:10 am

"'It’s a cycle of overhead,” said Jonathan Katz, the Associated Press reporter in Haiti at the time of the earthquake who tracked post-disaster spending for his book, The Big Truck That Went By. 'It was always going to be the American Red Cross taking a 9 percent cut, re-granting to another group, which would take out their cut.'”

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https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
https://www.philanthropy.com/article/hbos-vice-report-slams-aid-efforts-in-haiti/
https://cepr.net/chemonics-responds-to-vice-on-hbo-segment-on-haiti-reconstruction-aid/
https://cepr.net/inspector-general-finds-lack-of-oversight-of-chemonicsagain/

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Categories:
International Development / Foreign Aid / NGOs U.S. Foreign Policy / International Relations U.S. Government Contracting / Procurement Global Humanitarian Aid / Response Red Cross International NGOs / Contractors U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

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