Moyo's economic prescription for many African countries lies in a range of measures to be implemented over five to ten years. Written eloquently, part one of Moyo's book is a searing and necessary critique of Western aid agencies and the African countries that receive aid, and its failure. Moyo considers that there should still be a role for some kinds of aid intervention in Africa, especially in specific instances, as the sticking-plaster role of foreign aid, which has poured US$2 trillion from developed countries to poor countries in the last fifty years, has failed to deliver the promise of sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. However, the book may appeal to students, researchers, policy makers, and the general reader interested in aid. This proposition will alarm the entire international-aid architecture, including those whose jobs depend on doling aid to Africa, and for whom Africa is considered both a career and industry. After all, she is an African woman with a background in the corporate world of Goldman Sachs, the World Bank, Harvard, and Oxford, who is advocating that aid, as it is known now, is damaging Africa and should stop. 14.99.įor some people, arguments and positions represented in the book by Dambisa Moyo may be controversial, and even polemical. DEAD AID: WHY AID IS NOT WORKING AND HOW THERE IS ANOTHER WAY FOR AFRICA.
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