UN Management of the Tsunami Relief Program

The United Nations will manage the ongoing tsunami relief effort, with an appeal to donor nations for $977 million. The money will be used for various projects, with allocations to both UN agencies and NGOs. Critical voices have raised concerns about the UN managing this money, after the oil-for-food scandal. Joining Larry to discuss how the UN will manage the money and how public and private aid agencies will work together, is Stephanie Bunker, spokeswoman for Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations (OCHA), Peter Hall, Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Ronald Bailey, Science correspondent for Reason magazine, and Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C.