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.
