dead aid — Peace Corps

“Yet this is not the world in which most Africans live. In their world of aid-dependence, governments have failed at all that tasks and failed spectacularly.”

— Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid, I don’t know if a capitalist approach to development is the best approach to development, but I see everyday here how much the previous approaches to development are not working: the concentration of wealth around the capital cities, the lack of basic infrastructures, like roads, the inability for people to give their children basic human rights. And when people just want to use me for my access to grant and aid applications, it seems like little of this will survive after me.

December 22, 2013 by Emily Becker