The trouble with Africa
Subtitle: why foreign aid isn't working
By: Robert Calderisi
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781403971258; 9781403976512
Subjects: Politics and government; Aide économique; Economic assistance; Conditions sociales; Conditions économiques; Entwicklungshilfe; Politique et gouvernement; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Description: Argues that many of Africa's problems are related to such internal factors as market mismanagement, anti-business sentiments, and fatalistic African family values, in an account that proposes radical solutions to shortcomings in foreign aid and debt relief.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: What sets Africa apart; title: Looking for excuses; title: Africa from different angles; title: Thugs in power; title: Culture, corruption, and correctness; title: II: Stories from the front line; title: Tanzania: African socialism; title: Ivory coast: the end of a miracle; title: Discord in Central Africa; title: III: Facing the facts; title: Defying economics; title: The trouble with foreign aid; title: The Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline; title: A clash of values; title: IV: Facing the future; title: Ten ways of changing Africa; title: A new day.