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Dead Aid - Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo; Niall Ferguson (Foreword by)
Category: Non-Fiction
In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse--much worse. I ...Show more
Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
Category: Non-Fiction
There is no doubt: we want to help. The well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions. Yet the poverty persists. At a time of unprecedented global prosperity, children are starving to death. Are we not being ge ...Show more
Dead Aid : Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
Category: Non-Fiction
THERE IS NO DOUBT-WE WANT TO HELPThe well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions. Yet the poverty persists. At a time of unprecedented global prosperity, children are starving to death. Are we not being gene ...Show more
Edge of Chaos by Dambisa Moyo
Category: Politics
A generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is once again on the edge of chaos. Demonstrations have broken out from Belgium to Brazil led by angry citizens demanding a greater say in their political and economic future, better education, heathcare and living standards. The bottom line of t ...Show more
How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo
Category: Non-Fiction
"How the West was Lost" charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed economic policies. It is these decisions that, along the way, have resulted in an economic and g ...Show more
Winner Take All by Moyo Dambisa
Category: Non-Fiction
We all know the world's resources the commodities that underpin our daily lives and economies are scarce. But how many of us know what that really means for the global economy today? In Winner Take All Dambisa Moyo uncovers the realities behind the numbers. By looking at the developing trends in our ...Show more
Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What it Means for Us by Dambisa Moyo
Category: Non-Fiction
Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land, and water and the political Armageddon that will result as insatiable global demand far outstrips supply. But how true is this picture? In "Winner Take All" ...Show more
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