Liveblogging Dead Aid (Chapter 1)
Today, I begin an series of posts “live blogging” my reading of Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid. I had intended to read the book for some time, and over the weekend I finally was able to pick it up. I got two...
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Well, we got off to a bit of a rough start with chapter 1. Let’s see how we do with chapter 2 . . . p.10 In chapter 2, Moyo presents a history of aid. She chooses to start with Bretton Woods. One...
View ArticleLiveblogging Dead Aid (interlude)
The liveblog of my reading of Dead Aid will continue shortly. However, it is worth passing along links to several really good critiques of the book, published elsewhere: Lawrence Haddad from IDS has a...
View ArticleLiveblogging Dead Aid (Chapter 3)
And the beat goes on . . . ladies and gentlemen, Chapter 3. p.29: Well, so much for starting brightly. She has grossly oversimplified Diamond (which is hard to to, y’all) to argue that a country’s...
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After a few days off (a sort of sherbet for the mind, as it were), I’m back with Chapter 4 . . . p.48: The chapter starts with a strong diatribe about the ubiquity of corruption in Africa. First, it...
View ArticleLiveblogging Dead Aid: Enough is enough
My efforts to liveblog my reading of Dead Aid have run aground on the reality of my life – I have a full-time job and a couple of things from my academic life that require my attention. That, and I...
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