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I used to think Western Nations were obliged to to give aids to Africa until I heard the views of a woman called Damisa Moyo Please read this It will change your mind on the way you look at things! I do not completely abide with all her views because I have my own but I stand up with the Idea that we need to stand up a bit a string away from donors
Issuing a bond would require that the president and the cabinet ministers go out and market their country. Why would they do that when they can just call up the World Bank and say, 'Can I please have some money?'- Dambisa MoyoI believe it’s largely aid [that has held Africa back]. You get the corruption—historically, leaders have stolen the money without penalty—and you get the dependency, which kills entrepreneurship.
- Dambisa MoyoYou may not agree with me but you just cant escape the fact that too much of these western aids are just being laundered and misused .
And apparently the Wikileaks revealed the same... I've been following wikileaks for a while trying to get something that interests me until now..
It really shouldn’t comes as a huge surprise that African governments have become tired of the West’s indulgent aid and development programs that place a significantly higher emphasis on “process” over actual results. No doubt though that the latest damning Wikileaks release will shock, SHOCK, many in the Washington aid business as it reveals an increasingly painful truth that African governments find the USA’s and other Western governments’ obsession with “capacity building” to be tiresome. Instead, according to the Kenyan ambassador to Beijing, Julius Ole Sunkuli, China’s focus on producing tangible results with its investment and development programs are far more preferable to many African governments.
After all, why would any African government choose to have dozens of very well paid USAID officials write endless reports, attend numerous conferences that generate yet more reports all to little or no effect? While this may seem like an exaggeration, the amount of bureaucracy and paperwork that has come to dominate the American aid process cannot be overstated. Pretty much everyone inside the US aid industry itself will tell you, largely off the record, how demoralizing it is to be buried in spreadsheets and reports while producing little to no tangible benefit for those supposedly intended to benefit from American “aid.”
China’s emergence in Africa as a counterbalance to U.S. and European donors has been very positive for Africa by creating “competition” and giving African countries options. — US Embassy Beijing cable 2/11/2010
The level of self-righteousness on the part of US aid supporters is simply staggering. One can only hope that this blunt assessment of the US aid process and the preference for Chinese projects that produce tangible results will serve as a long overdue wake-up call to an industry that desperately needs a new moral compass.
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