{"id":3305,"date":"2011-08-25T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2011-08-25T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T13:17:18","slug":"brooks-goes-kristof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3305","title":{"rendered":"Brooks Goes Kristof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"The Rugged Altruists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/23\/opinion\/brooks-the-rugged-altruists.html\" target=\"_blank\">column<\/a> by David Brooks in Monday&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>, which seems to have gone unnoticed by the development <em><a title=\"Chatterati\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/chatterati\" target=\"_blank\">chatterati<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;As you talk to people involved in the foreign aid business &#8212; on the giving and the receiving ends &#8212; you are struck by how much disillusionment there is.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Very few nongovernmental organizations or multilateral efforts do good, many Kenyans say. They come and go, spending largely on themselves, creating dependency not growth. The government-to-government aid workers spend time at summit meetings negotiating protocols with each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But in odd places, away from the fashionableness, one does find people willing to embrace the perspectives and do the jobs the locals define &#8212; in businesses, where Westerners are providing advice about boring things like accounting; in hospitals where doctors, among many aggravations, try to listen to the symptoms the patients describe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A column by David Brooks in Monday&#8217;s New York Times, which seems to have gone unnoticed by the development chatterati: &#8220;As you talk to people<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3305\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brooks Goes Kristof<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-development","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-Rj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}