Aid and Other Dirty Business - Giles Bolton

The flag of Mozambique has a Kalashnikov on it, the only national flag to feature a gun, which sums up Africa right now, the current crisis in Congo all the evidence you need that this continent just doesnt want to fix itself and so why should we keep giving it aid? How many limos do the dictators need? My big problem with third world aid and charity is a simple one: who really benefits from it? We in the west or the poorest people who are supposed to get the money? Do we only have to care about African corruption when someone one reports it? Author Giles Bolton, a man who has worked in the business for a ten years, wants to put the case for both sides in ...  Read the complete review