“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.”
“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.”