Dead aid : why aid makes things worse and how there is another way for Africa

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Title:

Author:

Moyo, Dambisa.

ISBN:

9780141031187

Personal Author:

Moyo, Dambisa.

Publication Information:

London : Penguin, 2010, c2009.

Physical Description:

xx, 188 p. ; 20 cm.

General Note:

First published: London : Allen Lane, 2009.

Contents:

Part I. The world of aid -- 1. The myth of aid -- 2. A brief history of aid -- 3. Aid is not working -- 4. The silent killer of growth -- Part II. A world without aid -- The Republic of Dongo -- 5. A radical rethink of the dependency model -- 6. A capital solution -- 7. The Chinese are our friends -- 8. Let's trade -- 9. Banking on the unbankable -- Dongo revisited -- 10. Making development happen.

Abstract:

"In this provocative and compelling book, Dambisa Moyo argues that the most important challenge we face today is to destroy the myth that Aid actually works. In the modern globalized economy, simply handing out more money, however well intentioned, will not help the poorest nations achieve sustainable long-term growth. Dead Aid analyses the history of economic development over the last fifty years and shows how Aid crowds out financial and social capital and feeds corruption; the countries that have <U+2018>caught up<U+2019> did so despite rather than because of Aid. There is, however, an alternative. Extreme poverty is not inevitable. Dambisa Moyo shows how, with improved access to capital and markets and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can prosper. If we really do want to help, we have to do more than just appease our consciences, hoping for the best, expecting the worst. We need first to understand the problem." -- Back Cover.

Subject Term:

Economic development -- Social aspects -- Africa.

Poor -- Africa.

Economic assistance -- Africa.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

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Summary

We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it.

Dambisa Moyo's excoriating and controversial book reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary.

Dead Aid shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works - and make charity history.