Dead aid : why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa
(2009)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
338.91096/MOYO,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 338.91096/MOYO,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2009]
©2009
DESCRIPTION

xx, 188 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780374139568 (hardcover alk. paper), 0374139563 (hardcover alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Foreword / Niall Ferguson -- Preface -- Introduction -- The myth of aid -- A brief history of aid -- Aid is not working -- The silent killer of growth -- The republic of Dongo -- A radical rethink of the aid-dependency model -- A capital solution -- The Chinese are our friends -- Let's trade -- Banking on the unbankable -- Dongo revisited -- Making development happen

In "Dead Aid," Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa that has channeled billions of dollars in aid but failed to reduce poverty and increase growth. He offers a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions