Dead Aid
  • Published: 11 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241959961
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Dead Aid

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

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11 Aug 2011
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3 May 2010
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'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.
  • Published: 11 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241959961
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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About the author

Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo is a Global Economist at an Investment Bank in London. She previously worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. A native of Zambia, Southern Africa, Dambisa holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard University.

Dambisa has spoken on issues of Aid, Debt and Poverty in developing countries at conferences including at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland in 2005.

Dambisa lives in London. Dead Aid is her first book.

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Praise for Dead Aid

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