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Humanitarian aid has been justified for decades on the basis of its charitable nature rather than its effectiveness. Political expediencies or media coverage has often driven the allocation of emergency aid, recently illustrated by the unprecedented levels of aid for the tsunami disaster compared to that for the Darfur crisis where the humanitarian need was generally considered to be more severe. However, important changes took place during the 1990s.
Prepared by: Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha-Sapir
Published in: Emerging Themes in Epidemiology • June 2007 ; 4:11 •
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