- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407023045
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Aid and Other Dirty Business
How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor
A startling insight into how the West is failing Africa and what we can do about it - by an aid industry insider
Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank.
But the answers are much closer to home... and so are the solutions
When Giles Bolton began working in the world of aid and development, he travelled to Africa convinced that he could solve problems, save villages and sing songs with the locals under a shimmering sunset. The reality proved rather less romantic, and far more shocking...
Aid and Other Dirty Business is a radical, brilliantly readable and totally original approach to the seemingly unending problem of poverty in Africa. It may change your life, but, more importantly, it will help you change the lives of others.
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407023045
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
[A] heartening book on Africa and remedies for its plight ... Bolton doesn't rant or preach ... he balances hard facts with strong ideas
Independent
If you've ever wondered why Africa is still poor, this is the book for you ... Bolton writes with energy and directness
Metro
Engaging, absorbing and enlightening - everyone interested, from the aid worker to the armchair activist, should invest in this book. If Poor Story doesn't win your heart and mind to the cause of ending extreme poverty, nothing else will
Oxfam website
A vivid account of the everyday problems facing African countries
Financial Times
A shocking account ... clearly, intelligently and sensitively written
City AM
Superbly lucid and readable
Guardian
