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Problems in Private and Public Aid Donation in Pakistan: Story from PBS Newshour

I’d written earlier about the stultifyingly small (perhaps still-born?) aid packages that have been flowing into Pakistan’s flooded regions. As a result of the widely acknowledged insufficient private donations, the U.N. has asked that its member states double their pledged humanitarian aid packages to Pakistan.

To get your head around the latest news on private and public donations for humanitarian relief in Pakistan, please watch the video you will find below. As before, it is a excellent piece of reportage, brought to you and me by the always PBS Newshour.

Please find below a link that will take you to the PBS Newhour webpage where you can find more information on this story:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/july-dec10/pakistanaid_09-06.html

 

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Faheem Haider

Faheem Haider is a political analyst, writer and artist. He holds advanced research degrees in political economy, political theory and the political economy of development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University. He also studied political psychology at Columbia University. During long stints away from his beloved Washington Square Park, he studied peace and conflict resolution and French history and European politics at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Paris, respectively.

Faheem has research expertise in democratic theory and the political economy of democracy in South Asia. In whatever time he has to spare, Faheem paints, writes, and edits his own blog on the photographic image and its relationship to the political narrative of fascist, liberal and progressivist art.

That work and associated writing can be found at the following link: http://blackandwhiteandthings.wordpress.com