Book description
We all want to help. Over the past fifty years 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.
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.
