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The trouble with aid why less could mean more for Africa

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Zed Books 2008Description: ix, 175 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781848130401
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.910GLEN
Summary: Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems simple. Jonathan Glennie argues that government aid to Africa actually has many very harmful effects. He claims that aid has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services for poor people and damage to already precarious democratic institutions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index.

Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems simple. Jonathan Glennie argues that government aid to Africa actually has many very harmful effects. He claims that aid has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services for poor people and damage to already precarious democratic institutions.

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