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Madeleine Bunting on Dead Aid: “Disastrously irresponsible”
Madeleine Bunting of The Guardian wrote a critical review of Dead Aid last month. Below are some excerpts; you can read the full piece here.
There are so many generalisations skidding over decades of history, such frequent pre-emptory glib conclusions, that it is likely to leave you dizzy with silent protest.
Time and again, she fails to grapple with the single biggest factor determining the poverty of the continent – how the state functions, and has failed to function.
Her proposal to phase out aid in five years is disastrously irresponsible: it would lead to the closure of thousands of schools and clinics across Africa, and an end to the HIV antiretroviral, malaria and TB programmes, along with emergency food supplies, on which millions of lives depend.
-Josh Peck
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