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Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
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A national best-seller, 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 the development of the world's poorest countries.
Much debated in the US and the UK 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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- De Patrick en 05-25-13
De: Niall Ferguson
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- Dennis W
- 09-15-24
The Wasted Decades of Africa
I have finally read this book. It was written right before many African countries decided to go to the market for Eurobonds, multilateral loans, and other many commerical loans. And what has been the result? Almost all the countries that did so are on their knees with deep debt and risk of defaulting. IMF is now back and giving us (I'm in Kenya) a whole load of structural adjustment programmes - again.
The author of this book gave us the blueprint and we wasted a decade. No, we didn't just waste one decade, we wasted the next few because of all the loans we have to repay. The author's message was excellent and killing aid while fostering commerical loans is the way to go. However, we have to fix our political side. The last decade has been wasted by our leaders because it was the age of easy money. They were like a kid in a candy store and got everything possible for themselves without caring about the future. Politics and economy go hand in hand.
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- Laura Tilghman
- 07-09-19
for all Africans to learn
All African Diaspora should read the book version or listen to this Audiobook. it is worth it.
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- Walden
- 02-05-22
Eye opening
Moyo's book is excellent. The combination of her life experience growing up in Africa combined with her PhD in economics from Harvard gives her the insight to both understand the conditions on the ground in the area she's describing, and the knowledge of the mechanics and potential solutions for how aid might be better distributed, and the reasons for the faulty foundations of the money's origins and distribution. Many of the economic arguments were complex and went over my head, but Moyo still makes an extremely persuasive case which will likely break the reader's emotional stereotypes that giving money to impoverished countries is the best way to help them. An extremely important book that should be much more widely read and discussed.
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- Applollodorus
- 05-14-20
Interesting Listen
I found this book very interesting and it provoked me to critical thought many times. Moyo makes many strong arguments for radically changing the way we support many African nations. A few of her arguments did not convince me, but whether that is because they were lacking in evidence or that they simply went over my head is up for debate. I am certainly not an expert in aid, humanitarian action, or even economics but I feel that I am significantly more informed on the matter having listened to this book.
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- Cody Rasmussen
- 09-08-19
eye opening to say the least.
There are in this book many things to ponder as an american policy writer. Especially things concidering tax money being used for benefit not social moral grandstanding. I want to see Africa raised out of poverty, capitalism is the only thing to work everywhere else. the question as always is how wrong am I.
Cody Rasmussen
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- Anonymous User
- 05-01-20
This Book Changed My Entire Worldview
I’m thankful this book was written by Dambisa Moyo. I fell into some of the same ego traps that development workers do and this book helped me understand that what I thought was noble was actually not helpful. This book is very well written and easy to understand, though it is dense with information. This book is looking to the future of a more just world and a successful African continent. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in making the world a better place.
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- Paul Harris
- 03-13-20
Loved
It is a great book. It is well written and very informative. It is probably going to incite a negative reaction from some people who have a vested interest in the view of Africans as helpless and childlike. This book expanded my view of Africans and the people who consider themselves as the self-anointed saviors of the African peoples
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- Anthony Nana Kwamu
- 04-13-21
Excellent work
I'll hazard a cliché here and say this book should be required reading for every African government official. The ideas in this book are not new at all, but they are expressed in a most coherent and understandable manner, backed up with facts and statistics, and other meaningful data. Contrary to what some may think, the author has nothing but Africa's interest at heart, which unfortunately is not what you can say about many African government officials and leaders today or in the recent past. But, like the author points out, there is hope and signs of greatness to come.- author of "Timbuktu Chromicles: Aida and the Chosen Soldier."
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- Annab
- 12-29-24
Important but boring
Theres very little story here. Smartly done but very dry. Hard to really get interested. Also wish they had presented other ideas aside from resource extractive related capitalism. Also total miss not to talk about climate change’s huge impact on Africa.
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- David O'Donovan
- 03-05-19
Dangerous / Right Wing US view
A dangerous right-wing US view of African develop. Stop aid. Trust international financial institutions and rating agencies. Have African governments pay 12% interest to hedge funds instead of giving aid. I don’t buy it.
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