{ "id": "version:problem-when-charity-harms-v1", "recordId": "problem:when-charity-harms", "version": 1, "previousId": null, "adapterVersion": "research-content-v1", "subject": { "type": "entry", "collection": "problems", "frontmatter": { "title": "When Charity Harms", "number": 20, "statement": "When does charity cause harm, through dependency, crowding out local markets or governments, or delaying reform?", "progress": "A catalog of documented harm mechanisms, with the conditions under which each appears, drawn from real cases.", "conditions": [ { "collection": "conditions", "id": "symptom-trap" }, { "collection": "conditions", "id": "silence-about-failure" } ], "bounty": "Unfunded. The Question Bounties program will attach prizes once it is funded.", "sources": [] }, "body": "\n## Why it matters\n\nGood intentions are not good outcomes. Some programs have made things worse, and others may have delayed the structural fixes that would have helped more. A science of giving has to study harm as carefully as help.\n\n## Where to start\n\nThe [Failure Archive](/record/failure-archive/) collects documented cases. The work is to find the patterns that connect them.\n" }, "subjectHash": "17ccebba01d250e3cb1b350a3e3601bcfc785909c698698a265b35d58a9e86b3", "authorship": { "state": "unknown", "complete": false, "actorIds": [], "refs": [] }, "sources": [ { "sourceId": "source:current-problems-when-charity-harms", "selector": { "kind": "entry" } } ], "hash": "89a971058a7277952da4ef3b4d1c31726839f254358b12c7b907e9ef16d91c4a" }