The trouble with aid
Subtitle: why less could mean more for Africa
By: Jonathan Glennie
Contributors: International African Institute; Royal African Society; Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
Series: African arguments; African arguments
Publisher: Zed Books in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council; distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781848130395; 9781848130401
Subjects: Economic policy; Entwicklungspolitik; Economic assistance; Armut; Entwicklungshilfe
Description: Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems simple. Jonathan Glennie argues that government aid to Africa actually has many very harmful effects. He claims that aid has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services for poor people and damage to already precarious democratic institutions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Time to think again; title: The new aid era; title: All aid's impacts: the bigger picture; title: Pulling the strings: the reality of aid conditionality; title: Institutions, institutions, institutions; title: Aid, growth and confused academics; title: A better future?; title: Why is aid really going up?; title: What is to be done?