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The trouble with aid : why less could mean more for Africa / Jonathan Glennie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African argumentsPublication details: London : Zed Books, 2008.Description: ix, 175 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781848130395 (hbk.)
  • 1848130392 (hbk.)
  • 9781848130401 (pbk.)
  • 1848130406 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Trouble with aid.DDC classification:
  • 338.91096 22
LOC classification:
  • HC800 .G54 2008
Contents:
Time to think again -- The new aid era -- All aid's impacts: the bigger picture -- Pulling the strings: the reality of aid conditionality -- Institutions, institutions, institutions -- Aid, growth and confused academics -- A better future? -- Why is aid really going up? -- What is to be done?
Summary: 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.
Item type: Books
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Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS HC 800 .G54 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA004821 Available AUA004821

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index.

Time to think again -- The new aid era -- All aid's impacts: the bigger picture -- Pulling the strings: the reality of aid conditionality -- Institutions, institutions, institutions -- Aid, growth and confused academics -- A better future? -- Why is aid really going up? -- What is to be done?

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.