JOURNALISTIC RESEARCH-DAMBISA MOYO

DEAD AID

Dambisa Moyo

Q.

Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian-born economist and author of the bestselling book Dead Aid.

Find out what the book is about and explain the main points briefly and add your own opinions to the text.

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Dead Aid is a book by Dambisa  Moyo Therefore, the purposes of this book, aid is defined as the sum total of both concessionalloans and grants. It is these billions that have hampered, stifled and retarded Africa's development.

And it is these billions that Dead Aid will address

It has long seemed to be problematic, and even a little embarrassing, that so much of the public debate about Africa's economic problems should be conducted by non-African white men.

Dambisa Moyo

‘Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa” by Dambisa Moyo

For me, in Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo does not pull her punches. In a perfect world, she writes, 'what poor countries at the lowest rungs

of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy,

but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the

reforms required to get the economy moving.

In other words, rushing to elections before economic growth has got underway is a recipe for failure. But her most radical proposal comes in the form of a question. 'What if,' she asks, 'one by one, African countries each received a phone call ... telling them that in exactly five years the aid taps would be shut off- permanently?'

My opinion is, The book's concept - that aid to Africa has not worked - is nothing new.  Moyo bases her argument on incorrect and undocumented facts while failing to differentiate between different types of aid.  Without citing sources she makes inaccurate claims. But is true that it is  embarrassing, that so much of the public debate about Africa's economic problems should be conducted by non-African white men.

Dambisa Moyo think aid and grants are the source of pervert in Africa but to me that is not a problem is modernity of that aid, most of the aids and grants are not on strategic investment like Agriculture, electricity which could transform our economy to independent economy. 

Most of the aids we get on malaria, AIDS, and other service related. The purpose of donors is to make sure we never get economic independence. But if aids and grants could on creating economic independence then could benefits from it.

But also I think its time that we African we should now tray to use our time and think of how we can develop our countries without any help from other Continents, first African Union has to be strong on the kind of aid we have been given.

In Conclusion:  In Swahili we say “ukimshibisha leo mtu kesho atahitaji tena” (When you feed me to day with a food and tomorrow I will need it. So better to have your own food.

Thank You.

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