Africa doesn't matter
Subtitle: how the west has failed the poorest continent and what we can do about it
By: Giles Bolton
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Arcade Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611453065
Subjects: Poor; Economic assistance; Poverty; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Economic aspects; Globalization
Notes: "First published in the United Kingdom in 2007 by Ebury Press under the title Poor Story and revised for this edition."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Poverty: impossible choices; title: A life quite ordinary --; title: Africa scrambled --; title: President for a day -- -- Aid: good intentions; title: Where does your money go? --; title: Pass the hat-charity aid --; title: Budget or fudge it-national aid --; title: Interlude: gamblers required --; title: Airily conditioned-international aid --; title: Aid betrayed -- -- Trade: dusty plains and unlevel playing fields; title: In theory --; title: Out of Africa --; title: Into Africa --; title: It doesn't work for you either -- -- Globalization: might and right; title: Africa doesn't matter --; title: Screw you, too -- -- Change: action heroes; title: What happens next? --; title: Powerless or complacent? --; title: Profit in virtue --; title: Guilt or glory --; title: Appendix 1: national aid donors --; title: Appendix 2: United Nations agencies in Africa.