Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and how There is Another Way for Africa

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Allen Lane, 2009 - 188 pages
'Dead Aid' analyses the history of economic development over the last 50 years and shows how aid crowds out financial and social capital and directly causes corruption. He also shows how, with improved access to capital and markets and with the right policies, even the poorest nations could be allowed to prosper.

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About the author (2009)

Dambisa Moyo received an undergraduate degree in chemistry and an MBA in finance from American University, an MPA from Harvard University, and a PhD in economics from Oxford University. She was a consultant for the World Bank and an investment banker specializing in emerging markets at Goldman Sachs. She has written several books including Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly--and the Stark Choices Ahead, and Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World. Her work regularly appears in economic and finance-related publications including the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2009, she was named by Time as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World and was named to the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders Forum. In 2012 his title Winner Take All China's Push for Resources and What It Means for the World made The New York Times Best Seller List.

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