Dead Aid
Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
$26.23
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2010
Summary
‘Articulate, self-confident and angry … this book marks a turning point’ - Spectator
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 ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141031187 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141031182 |
| Author: | Dambisa Moyo |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
A damning assessment of the failures of sixty years of western development
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 * Daily Mail *
This reader was left wanting a lot more Moyo, a lot less Bono – Niall Ferguson
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.
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