It surprised us, too, but when we added up all the overseas development assistance Thailand is providing we found it's on the heels of the U.S. as a percentage of national income. The story here is that it shows what the countries of the south can do to help each other. |
It's not a big jump. But it's a jump. |
Many of the houses are the wrong size, in the wrong place, and people don't like them. [The government] should have avoided this top-down, cookie-cutter approach to reconstruction and got the process right. |