Binnenland·folia.nl·7 mei

Tim van Opijnen | Foreign aid is being used as extortion

For sixty years, the United States was the world’s largest provider of humanitarian aid, but in just a few years the reality surrounding development aid has become far more grim, observes columnist Tim van Opijnen. “A doctor who withholds a patient’s HIV medication until they sign over their house isn’t negotiating with a harder edge. That’s extortion.”