Dead aid : why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa
(2009)
By:
Moyo, Dambisa
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
338.91096/MOYO,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2009]
©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