Opinion

The sky isn’t falling …

Barry Gaberman
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Barry GabermanEveryone loves to moan about a crisis, in this case an economic one. The words meltdown and tsunami are frequently used to describe the current situation. We are prone to take the most dire situation facing an NGO we are familiar with and extrapolate from the particular to the general. So it comes with a bit of relief, if not a dash of disappointment, when the data doesn’t uphold the doom and gloom.

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