He says that Live Aid "created something permanent and self-sustaining", but has also asked why Africa is getting poorer.
Al-Shabaab, which is fiercely opposed to any western or regional intervention, banned food aid last year in the areas it controls and kicked many relief organisations out, saying aid created dependency.
As leader of the largest and strongest big economy in Europe, Ms. Merkel has been in a position to push policies on countries that are dependent on aid, creating much resentment on the streets of Athens.
Mr. Farrow's profile has grown in recent months through television appearances and the announcement of a book deal with Penguin called "How America's Military Aid Creates America's Enemies".
What is clear is that being excluded from humanitarian aid creates more than just an economic burden of having to find alternative means to secure shelter or a source of livelihood.
However, aid might help to ease migration costs in several ways: i) Aid might reduce transaction costs by providing opportunities for the highly skilled to migrate thanks to the attribution of scholarship grants, and ii) reduce informational costs by providing information on donor countries, as aid creates bridges between the receiving and the donor countries.
We argue that, at the beginning of the 1990s, a co-occurrence of factors (renewed access to territory, military demobilization and increased access to cash through pensions, remittances and aid) created conditions for the re-development of productive activities, trade and the emergence of an informal economy in the camps themselves.
And, he says, just as foreign aid created the "Third World" by encouraging a totally diverse group of countries to unite in quest of handouts, so also it has created the development economics industry in the First World, by indirectly paying for the network of institutes and university departments.
Continuing our foreign aid creates the friendships, benevolence and stability that result in safety for Americans abroad and at home.
Although Greece was neutral until the Italian invasion, the British troops that were sent as defensive aid created the possibility of a frontier to the German southern flank.
