We’d always seen aid as an investment—the idea being that the business of aid is to put itself out of business. However, there were plenty of examples of this not being the case. In her book Dead Aid (parodying Live Aid) the economist Dambisa Moyo had shown how aid can be misplaced and misspent and at its worst can prop up governments that are not accountable to their own people.
Many reviews of "Dead Aid" are critical of Bono and Geldof so it's interesting to see Bono compliment the book.
