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Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
Dambisa Moyo
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Description for Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
Paperback. 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. In this book, the author shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid 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.
We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development 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.
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141031187
SKU
V9780141031187
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Ref
99-97
About Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years, having previously worked for the World Bank as a consultant. Dambisa completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University, and holds a Masters from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. She was born and raised in Lusaka , Zambia.
Reviews for Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
A damning assessment of the failures of sixty years of western development
Financial Times
Kicks over the traditional piety that Western aid benefits the third world
Books of the Year
Sunday Herald
Dambisa Moyo makes a compelling case for a new approach
Kofi Annan Provocative ... incendiary ... a double-barrelled shotgun of a book ... Read more
Financial Times
Kicks over the traditional piety that Western aid benefits the third world
Books of the Year
Sunday Herald
Dambisa Moyo makes a compelling case for a new approach
Kofi Annan Provocative ... incendiary ... a double-barrelled shotgun of a book ... Read more