Anna White, Pambazuka
Last year, former World Bank economist Dambisa Moyo made waves with
the publication of her controversial book, ‘Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not
Working and How There is Another Way for Africa’. Over the past 60
years, she laments, at least US$1 trillion of development-related aid
has flowed into Africa, yet the number of people living on less than a
dollar a day has nearly doubled. She is not the first observer to
contrast the size of the multi-billion dollar development industry and
the blatant lack of progress on its stated goals.