Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Book by Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo
In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. ... Google Books
Originally published: March 17, 2009
Author: Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo
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Harder, more demanding, more difficult, but in the end the road to growth, prosperity, and independence for the continent. This book is about the aid-free ...
Oct 27, 2010 · Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa. In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid ...
It created complacency on the part of African leaders to think outside the box. They are blindfolded by aid and shift focus from focusing on investments. Each ...
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11 quotes from Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa: 'In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of ...
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But we usually think of aid at a very local level - welfare. Dr. Moyo expands this concept to a continent and thinks that Africa paid a huge price for money ...
Dambisa Moyo. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009, 188 pp., $24.00 (paper).
This is a classic example of the type of attitude that I think pervades the African continent. ... innovation. There is a lack of any effort being paid to try and ...
Indeed, many scholars have argued that it was precisely because many African countries have, over time, received (floating rate) loans, and not grants, to ...
On the other hand, aid-dependency impedes African governments' ability to freely decide over their own economic and political policies, implying that they are ...
The book, whose main title is an ironic reference to the Live Aid benefit concerts of 1985, argues that the large amounts of money donated by Western states…