![]() ![]() ![]() She laments a time when the spokespeople for African development are not African leaders but pop musicians, movie stars and new philanthropist. This history of aid culminates with the current mentality towards aid which the author dubs glamour aid. Aid has been used as a tool for industrialization, a remedy for poverty, a weapon in the cold war, an incentive for policy change. She tracks the history of systematic aid in Africa from its origins in Bretton Woods in 1944 through a succession of philosophical and political attitudes towards aid over the last 60 years. Moya makes a distinction between humanitarian aid, which she believes we have a moral obligation to, and systematic bi-lateral or multilateral aid. Over this same period Africa has posted negative growth and African’s are worse off today than in the 70’s in terms of real per capita income, with over half of Africa’s 700 million people living on less than one dollar a day. ![]() In Dead Aid she passionately makes the case that the US$1 Trillion Africa has receive in aid over the last 40 years has not only failed to produce development, but has actually been regressive. She earned a graduate degree from Harvard and a post-graduate degree from Oxford and worked with both the World Bank and Goldman Sachs. Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africaĭambisa Moyo is Zambian born economist. ![]()
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