Dead Aid
Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Recommended by George Ayittey, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #15 in Development Economics, Ranked #80 in Africa — see more rankings.
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: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and... more
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George Ayittey Yes. Dambisa Moyo, who was a student of mine at American University in Washington DC, represents a growing chorus of Africans who regard the Western foreign aid-driven development model – or the Washington consensus – to be an abysmal failure. More than $800bn in Western aid has been pumped into Africa since 1960, with little to show for it except a multitude of black elephants, show-airports amid institutional decay, and crumpled infrastructure. Moyo argues that foreign aid actually made Africans poorer by creating a dependency on aid, depreciating their pride and dignity, and preventing... (Source)
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- #86 in African History
- #92 in Poverty
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