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When development work feels like participating in the problem

I work for an aid organization and keep seeing the same villages get poorer despite millions in funding while our expat staff live in compounds with generators and imported food.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between intention and impact in development work creates a crisis of professional identity and moral purpose.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Development economics — why some countries are poor?”

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