Aid

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Advancing African Development: The Necessity for Aid and Trade

posted by Adam Habib

Is aid as bad as Greg Mills and Terence McNamee suggest? Is the facilitation of trade the simple answer to all of Africa’s woes? One would think so if one read the opinion editorial entitled “More Aid is not What Africa Needs from Obama” that appeared in the pages of South Africa’s Business Day on [...]

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Monday, February 16th, 2009

The Beginning of the End for ODA?

posted by Alex de Waal

The last ten years has been a remarkable experiment in using official development assistance (ODA) as a motor for development in Africa (and other developing countries too). It has been a bonanza for the aid industry and especially the favoured elements such as HIV/AIDS, which have often found themselves in the remarkable situation in which [...]

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Saturday, February 14th, 2009

The Trouble with Aid

posted by Jonathan Glennie

In the economic turmoil currently affecting the industrialised world, the arguments I set out in my book, The Trouble With Aid: Why Less Could Mean More for Africa, become even more pertinent. As donor governments look for ways to cut expenditure on non-priority activities, some campaigners will shift away from a call to double aid [...]

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