# Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/04/07/dead-aid-why-aid-is-not-working-and-how-there-is-another-way-for-africa/
- Published: 2013-04-07T21:52:08+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer
because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West’s eyes, to 
a childlike state of beggary.

 

 

 

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We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid has
flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning
for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it.

 

 

 

Dead Aid shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo 
shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest 
nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works–
and make charity history.

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