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Development aid does more harm than good in Africa, says Zambian economist and author Dambisa Moyo, so we should stop it. She has the ear of at least one African president, Paul Kagame of Rwanda. 'Why should Bono be the one to determine economic policy in Africa?

It was during her studies at Harvard that she first started wondering why Africa is the only continent that is forever struggling. Later, as she was working on her thesis at Oxford, she tried to figure out why poor Asian countries like South Korea or Thailand managed to join the world of emerging nations when no African country did. For the next eight years, she worked for the US investment bank Goldman Sachs. Gradually her conviction grew stronger: Africa will never get on its feet unless it makes a clean break with the system of development aid.

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03/12/2009

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Comparing Moyo to Ayaan HIrsi Ali is inaccurate at many levels: - Her ideas are not controversial. Most African intellectuals are quite skeptical about AID, even when they work for NGOs. - She is not under any kind of fatwa or death threat. - You guys obviously know little about strong, independent African women, particularly in Europe.

03/12/2009