We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it.     Dambisa Moyo's excoriating and controversial book reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary.    Dead Aid shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works - and make charity history.



    向非洲提供物资援助仍然是当前主要的援助方式之一，但本书作者提出了一个惊人的结论：供给非洲的援助使穷人更加贫困、经济增长更加缓慢，造成了非洲国家不堪重负的债务等一系列问题。本书第一部分主要举例说明之前西方在非洲的援助是无效的，以及为什么是无效的。作者本人是赞比亚人，因此大多事例围绕西方对赞比亚的援助。在第二部分作者提出了自己对非洲发展的建议和模