TY - BOOK AU - Glennie,Jonathan ED - International African Institute ED - Royal African Society ED - Social Science Research Council (U.S.) TI - The trouble with aid: why less could mean more for Africa SN - 9781848130395 AV - HC800 .G5473 2008 U1 - 338.9 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - Zed Books, in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council, distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Economic assistance KW - Africa N1 - "...first published in association with the International African Institute, the Royal African Society and the Social Science Research Council in 2008..."--T.p. verso N2 - 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 ER -