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<div>From: Ted Schrecker <a href="mailto:tschreck@uottawa.ca">tschreck@uottawa.ca</a> </div>
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<div>This is an interesting and important exchange, but I fear it falls into the trap of thinking that because past uses of aid have been ill-conceived or actively malevolent, aid can be done without. On the savage arithmetic that says otherwise, please see Jeffrey Sachs, "Beware False Tradeoffs," at
<a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.org/special/global_health/sachs">http://www.foreignaffairs.org/special/global_health/sachs</a>. </div>
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<div>Aid is, of course, only part of the picture and only one dimension of the obligations of the international community, if there is such a thing. The final report of the Globalization Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, with which I had some involvement, incorporates a number of useful observations on this point. It's available at
<a href="http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/globlalization_kn_07_2007.pdf">http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/globlalization_kn_07_2007.pdf</a>. </div>
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