The Dead Aid issue is being discussed at the Sunday Times Oxford Literalry festival on Saturday 4th April at 6pm.
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. Are we not being generous enough? Or is the problem somehow insoluble, an inevitable outcome of historical circumstance? Dr Dambisa Moyo, a former Global Economist at Goldman Sachs and the World Bank, has written Dead Aid, arguing that the most important challenge we face today is to destroy the myth that aid actually works and showing how aid crowds out financial and social capital and feeds corruption. Do we need alternative solutions, and if so what are they? Join the discussion with Dambisa Moyo and Phil Bloomer, Director of Campaigns and Policy, Oxfam, with journalist and broadcaster Jon Snow in the chair.
Further details and tickets from the festival website (item 754).
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I spent two years in Lesotho with the Peace Corps from 1999 to 2001. I had a wonderful experience. Ms. Moyo's comments mirror my feelings precisely. I always felt that a country with a king and a government should be able to handle their own affairs. They seeked defunct. It seemed to me that aid had become a habit and I felt that the USA was entirely responsible because there seemed to be no oversight and no demands made of the country to effect change form the constant flow of aid. I have two wonderful friends from my experience and it is very disheartening to know that to a great extent their situations will persist in a status quo as a direct result of this irrresponsible situation. Thanks.
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