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, ...
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 childlike state of beggary. "Dead Aid" shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works - and make charity history.
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Born and raised in Zambia, Dambisa Moyo has a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University and a master's from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. A former consultant for the World Bank, Moyo worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years.
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The uncomfortable truth is that far from being a prerequisite for economic growth, democracy can hamper development as democratic regimes find it difficult to push through economically beneficial legislation amid rival parties and jockeying interests. In a perfect world, what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving (). (查看原文)
for the west, aid became a means by which Britain and France combined their new-found altruism with a hefty dollop of self-interest - maintaining strategic geopolitical holds. For the US, aid became the tool of another political contest - the Cold War.
i.e. leverages to influence policy (查看原文)
3 reasons to read this book: 1- it tells you again great arguments can be simplistic, facts can be one-sided but nonetheless builds up a strong case; 2- it's a good (yet short) intro to the complex pr...3 reasons to read this book: 1- it tells you again great arguments can be simplistic, facts can be one-sided but nonetheless builds up a strong case; 2- it's a good (yet short) intro to the complex problem of development and aid; 3- it's written by a black woman, not by a white man. (展开)
Interesting perspective to see the problem. It definitely unveiled the hypocrisy behind the word “aid”. There could be the risk of over simplification, but definitely worth to think.
When Help Does Harm http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123725502933150589.html?mod=rss_Books When Help Does Harm By MATTHEW REES It is one of the great conundrums of the modern age: More than 300 million people living across the continent of Africa are stil...
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援助的历史：非洲的困境+非洲的进步/loans是贷款grants是白送给你/援助的目的和发展机构对于贫穷的解决方案随历史变化p24有总结，比如想要我的援助，就必须structural adjustment（就是经济自由化）/不好的governance.weak institution together with obsession with democracy...
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Nicolas
世界知识出版社2010版（其他版本）
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世界知识出版社2010版（其他版本）
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Allen Lane2009版（其他版本）
0 有用 wonsaponatime 2019-05-22 15:14:04
内容有些过时（？
0 有用 BlueCyan 2020-06-05 22:53:47
非洲不能永远依靠援助，需要做出改变。
0 有用 电胆马 2019-03-24 19:44:31
真的是Aid和Africa的入门书，适合我这种小白。
5 有用 彭困困 2012-03-12 13:45:41
3 reasons to read this book: 1- it tells you again great arguments can be simplistic, facts can be one-sided but nonetheless builds up a strong case; 2- it's a good (yet short) intro to the complex pr... 3 reasons to read this book: 1- it tells you again great arguments can be simplistic, facts can be one-sided but nonetheless builds up a strong case; 2- it's a good (yet short) intro to the complex problem of development and aid; 3- it's written by a black woman, not by a white man. (展开)
0 有用 龟龟 2020-12-12 20:58:12
Interesting perspective to see the problem. It definitely unveiled the hypocrisy behind the word “aid”. There could be the risk of over simplification, but definitely worth to think.