4 edition of Aid to Africa found in the catalog.
Aid to Africa
Ian Malcolm David Little
Published
1964
by Pergamon Press, Macmillan in Oxford, New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | [by] I. M. D. Little. |
| Series | The Commonwealth and international library of science, technology, engineering, and liberal studies |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | HC502 .L5 1964 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xii, 76 p. |
| Number of Pages | 76 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5918760M |
| LC Control Number | 64022219 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 228871 |
Aid meant to combat poverty in Africa has been complicated by corruption among political leaders, leading some to question if it hurts more than . It is aid itself that is keeping Africa poor. This in a nutshell, is the argument Moyo develops in the first half of her book, Dead Aid, which came out last month. She is referring only to government aid, not to emergency humanitarian aid or charity. "Development aid .
Glassdoor has 1 Book Aid For Africa reviews submitted anonymously by Book Aid For Africa employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if 5/5(1). Dead Aid. Moyo's first book, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa (), argues that government-to-government foreign aid has harmed Africa and should be phased out. In the book she stated that in the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries Alma mater: American University (BS, .
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“Dambisa Moyo's book Dead Aid is a timely book which brings forth what we have been thinking about Western aid, but did not dare to speak out Moyo has shown brilliantly that Western aid, governmental or non-governmental, couldn't help Africa in regard to transforming to a better form of social organization, by which innovation and Cited by: Book Aid International is the UK’s leading international book donation and library development Aid to Africa book.
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For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in Cited by: Aid for Africa is a charity alliance of U.S.-based nonprofits and their African partners working to help children, families, and communities throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
View our list of charity organizations, or find organizations working in a specific African country Select Country. Select Country Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi. Book Aid for Africa is partnering with North East England We are sharing our passion for books in the North East of England, enjoying books and sending books to Africa as a result.
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In some cases, you may find a local business happy to support Book Aid for Africa by either paying for or arranging to ship. The book is a survey of case studies of aid effectiveness as applied to worldwide small pox eradication, material mortality in Sri Lanka, HIV infection in Thailand, guinea worm in Africa and other successful health initiatives that have saved millions of.
Children and adults in Africa are hungry to read, hungry to learn. Yet a severe book “famine” often stands in their way. Books For Africa aims to end that famine. Since its founding inBooks For Africa has shipped more than 27 million textbooks and library books to 48 African countries.
“If Syria is to rise from the ashes it needs a united Arab world which has one thing on its agenda, not the falling of a dictator for we have seen many of those fall, but the reemergence of a prosperous Arab nation, one that is not reliant on foreign aid but is self-sustained and set on its way to become powerful once again.”.
The next four chapters focus on aid and aid policy, covering the use of aid and its supervision, donors' policies, UK aid policy, and technical assistance.
The final chapter draws some conclusions. Among these is that the emphasis of aid to Africa needs to shift to agriculture and rural development. Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa.
Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not [ ]. Madeleine Bunting is alarmed by a book that argues against giving aid to Africa Madeleine Bunting Fri 13 Feb EST First published on Fri 13 Feb EST. Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa by Tobias Hagman and Filip Reyntjens, publisher: Zed Books, London.
Anyone who instinctively thinks the governments of prosperous nations should give % of their GDP (a goal promoted by Tony Blair, David Cameron and others) in foreign aid should read this book. Better World Books has helped us ship million books to Africa.
This *triple-bottom-line online bookstore donates one book to someone in need for each book purchased, book for book, using revenue to fund literacy organizations including Books for Africa. In Dead Aid, Moyo comes out with guns blazing against the aid industry—calling it not just ineffective, but “malignant.” Despite more than $1 trillion in development aid given to Africa in the past 50 years, she argues that aid has failed to deliver sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction—and has actually made the continent.
Dead Aid is an interesting, provocative look at the foreign aid industry and its effects on Africa. Dambisa Moyo, who formerly worked for Goldman Sachs and the World Bank, draws a conclusion not unknown to others in the field: development aid (as differentiated from humanitarian aid) has not only done little good for the nations of Africa but has indeed caused great harm/5.
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo (Author) Niall Ferguson (Foreword) Editorial Reviews Review “An incendiary new book Here is a refreshing voice What makes Dead Aid so powerful is that it’s a double-barrelled shotgun of a.
Books For Africa, Saint Paul, Minnesota. 10, likes talking about this. SinceBooks For Africa has shipped over 47 million high-quality books and served all 55 African countries.
In /5(10). Since the early s, there have been exhaustive debates on foreign aid focusing on its failures in Sub-Saharan Africa. The literature on foreign aid to Africa, especially among intellectuals, is most often critical of its disappointing performance in terms of poverty reduction and economic : Jong-Dae Park.
“Aid is just a stopgap,” he confessed in during a speech at Georgetown University. “Commerce and entrepreneurial capitalism take more people out of poverty than aid. We need Africa to Author: Rainer Zitelmann. According to a report, Africa receives about $ billion each year from official aid, grants, loans to the private sector, remittances, at the same time, some $ billion is extracted from the continent in the form of debt repayments, multinational company profits, illicit financial flows, brain drain, illegal logging and fishing etc.Book Aid International is a small charity located in the United Kingdom that offers free books to organizations in Africa (and Palestine).It manages its book donation programme through local partners in some countries.
It is not possible to directly contact Book Aid International for book donations, but a list of local partners is available for NGOs to contact for benefiting from this .Get this from a library!
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