Dead Aid – Why Aid is Not Working

by Dambisa Moyo

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Dead Aid

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A national bestseller, Dead Aid 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 increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined--and millions continue to suffer. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Dambisa Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries. Much debated in the United States and the United Kingdom on publication, Dead Aid is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.

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Read Around The World Challenge user profile avatar for Churchill
(5 years ago)
01 Jan, 2018
A book in which the author argues that billions of dollars that have been given to African governments over decades as aid have lead to more problems instead of improving the situation of the ordinary African. An interesting read for anyone interested in finding solutions to problems the whole continent of Africa is experiencing.

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Country: Zambia flag Zambia
Language: EN
Genre: Historical Business Political
Recommended: 01 Jan 2018

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