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Reflections on the Aid Industrial Complex
Seeing my paper/analysis The Aid Industrial Complex: Analyzing Power Structures, Dependency Dynamics, and Reform Pathways in a Disrupted Global Order ranked as the most downloaded and most viewed
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Seeing my paper/analysis The Aid Industrial Complex: Analyzing Power Structures, Dependency Dynamics, and Reform Pathways in a Disrupted Global Order ranked as the most downloaded and most viewed
The sun was heavy on the streets of Copenhagen today. I was walking and listening to an audiobook, when I stopped at a coffee shop.
These are just thoughts I’ve been scratching at—part reflection, part framework, part honest questioning. Some of it may be wrong. Or incomplete. Or true for
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I’ve been speaking a lot about impact investing lately — in panels, conversations with colleagues, and in my own reflections. So I wanted to take
