A year ago I reviewed Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid here. It subsequently became a bestseller and has dramatically changed the terms of the debate about aid effectiveness. This year's criticism of the aid business comes from Linda Polman – reviewed in the Guardian today (although bizarrely it doesn't seem to be online) and recently in a number of papers in other country's such as Sri Lanka's Sunday Times.

Polman is a war correspondent who's seen aid organisations swing into action time and again. Her main point seems to be that they've become a large and self-perpetuating business whose arrival in crisis spots has many counter-productive effects. The book seems to be published by Penguin currently under the title With Friends Like These and is due out later in the year as The Crisis Caravan – slightly puzzling, but I look forward to reading it.