Expensive poverty
Subtitle: why aid fails and how it can work
By: Greg Mills ; foreword by Hailemariam Desalegn
Contributors: H̲āylamāryām Dasālañ, 1965-
Publisher: Picador Africa, an imprint of Pan Macmillan South Africa
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Northlands, Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781770107373; 9781770107380
Subjects: International relief; Economic assistance
Other titles: Expen$ive poverty
Description: "Africa has received $1.2 trillion in development assistance since 1990. Even though donors have spent more than $1 000 per person over these 30 years, the average income of sub-Saharan Africans has increased by just $350. The continent has very little to show for this money, some of which has been consumed by the donors themselves, much of it by local governments and elites. There must be a better way to address the poverty pandemic. Expensive Poverty is focused on answering the trillion-dollar question: why have decades of spending had such a small impact on improving the lives of the poor? Whatever the area of aid expenditure - humanitarian, governance, military, development - the overall intention should be the same: to try to reach the point that aid is no longer necessary."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-413) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the dilemmas of aid; title: The state of aid; title: The strategic imperative; title: The advisory business; title: Making peace; title: Delivering military assistance; title: Building economies amidst conflict; title: Conditionality and ownership; title: Dreams of a Marshall plan; title: Addressing the infrastructure deficit; title: Different models, more success?; title: Conclusion: aid as a great disruptor; title: Don't pay the oppressor.