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The Poverty of Nations - Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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The Poverty of Nations - Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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After 30 years of ever increasing aid, most African countries are
no better off than they were at independence - indeed, many are
slipping back and earlier economic and political achievements are
being undermined. This book attempts to answer the questions: Why?
What went wrong" The author argues that the widespread theory of
"putting the last first" is fine in theory but that in practice the
"last" is unaffected He looks at aid as an essentially "top-down"
exercise and discusses the failure of ambitious projects because of
over-ambitious targets and inadequate controls. He also tackles the
thorny question of whether aid to Africa shouldd be stopped so that
the continent's economic evolution should be allowed to proceed at
its own pace, without outside attempts to short-circuit the
process. He looks at various approaches: aggressive intervention,
greater financial accountability as a condition of aid, long stays
in the field by donor staff, and finally and most radically the
ultimate in "bottom-up" approaches: direct cash transfer. All these
issues are informed by the author's long experience as a
development official in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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