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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book a whole lot. Dambiso Moyo is pretty much saying something that most people think is CRAZY -- she is suggesting that we STOP sending aid to Africa. All of it. Why? Because, she says, it's clearly not working. It doesn't give African governments any incentive to change things, it lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62430557">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;<p>In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.<br/><br/>In <em>Dead Aid</em>, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.<br/><br/><em>Dead Aid</em> is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is simultaneously eloquent, reasoned, and passionate.  Dambisa Moyo, argues that international aid is destroying Africa, promoting government corruption and destroying the will for self-government on the continent.<br/><br/>I wish Dead Aid was longer.  This reads like a tract (a very goo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73530416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;<p>In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.<br/><br/>In <em>Dead Aid</em>, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.<br/><br/><em>Dead Aid</em> is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is time for Bono and Clinton to step aside and show some true charity. The aid they propose to increase for Africa is dead; it is not only useless, but also directly harmful.<br/><br/>Anyone who truly cares for the millions of people in the nations of Africa, for their lack of water, food and p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57001060">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;<p>In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.<br/><br/>In <em>Dead Aid</em>, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.<br/><br/><em>Dead Aid</em> is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I agree with the precept of teaching some to fish is better than giving them a fish, but this book takes it too far.  I've seen first hand some of the benefits that aid has given to Africa, so can't take it as far as the author, most directly in medicine and preserving life.  I do think it is a good...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56962159">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a tad heavy, so I'm working my way through a little bit at a time. But so far it's great. The author is a native of Zambia who has a PhD in economics from Oxford, so I'm pretty sure she's slightly more qualified to talk about Africa and its economy than, say, Bono.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;<p>In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.<br/><br/>In <em>Dead Aid</em>, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.<br/><br/><em>Dead Aid</em> is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I met Dambisa by pure luck and I was enchanted by her. And so I decided to read her book. Her book is a bit like her. It reads very fast and to the point, it is full of energy and dynamism, exactly what Africa needs.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;<p>In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.<br/><br/>In <em>Dead Aid</em>, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.<br/><br/><em>Dead Aid</em> is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is so fascinating.  The author dares to fly in the face of conventional wisdom that says more aid = a better Africa.  A scholarly and persuasive examination of a topic most others would not dare to touch.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;<p>In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.<br/><br/>In <em>Dead Aid</em>, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.<br/><br/><em>Dead Aid</em> is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Am I a capitalist?  Though I don't understand all of the macro economics she gets into in the middle of the book, I think she does make reasonable hard-to-ignore arguments about why what we've been doing hasn't worked.  I hope Bono doesn't take it too hard...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting perspective on how government to government aid is actually extremely harmful for Africa. Offers other options for how to create stable economies.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At best Moyo rehashes arguments Easterly has already made, and made better, in White Man's Burden.  If you read that book there is really no reason to read this one.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;<p>In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.<br/><br/>In <em>Dead Aid</em>, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.<br/><br/><em>Dead Aid</em> is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is about how foreign aid has screwed up Africa, and how Africa can do better without it.  Some arguments about aid propping up dictators are believable.  Others about how entrepreneurs will come in and fix everything after the dictators wither on the vine when the aid spigot is turned off don't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76790783">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting book with a very provocative thesis, but the fact that it reads like a thesis is precisely the biggest problem. I worry that the dry tone of this publication will limit the transmission of the solutions proposed by this book to jumpstart the economy of the African continent.]]></body>
    
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