Dead Aid

Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

Dambisa Moyo

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English

Penguin
03 May 2010

History; Aid & relief programmes

'Articulate, self-confident and angry ... this book marks a turning point'

Spectator

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.

By: Dambisa Moyo
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9780141031187
ISBN 10: 0141031182
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 May 2010
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dambisa Moyo worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years, having previously worked for the World Bank as a consultant. Dambisa completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University, and holds a Masters from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. She was born and raised in Lusaka , Zambia.

Reviews for Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

A damning assessment of the failures of sixty years of western development Financial Times Kicks over the traditional piety that Western aid benefits the third world -- Books of the Year Sunday Herald Dambisa Moyo makes a compelling case for a new approach -- Kofi Annan Provocative ... incendiary ... a double-barrelled shotgun of a book Daily Mail This reader was left wanting a lot more Moyo, a lot less Bono -- Niall Ferguson