The trouble with aid : why less could mean more for Africa /
Jonathan Glennie
- London ; New York : New York : Zed Books, in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council ; distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- ix, 175 p. ; 20 cm
"...first published in association with the International African Institute, the Royal African Society and the Social Science Research Council in 2008..."--T.p. verso
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