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 ...
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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 ...
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).
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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 ...
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 ...
Therefore “Dead Aid” targets an audience that is com- posed of international donors, NGOs, defenders of development aid, African and Western governments as well ...
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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In "Dead Aid," Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: ...