TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glennie,Jonathan
ED  - International African Institute.
ED  - Royal African Society.
ED  - Social science research council (Etats-Unis)
TI  - The trouble with aid: why less could mean more for Africa 
SN  - 9781848130395 (rel)
AV  - HC 800 G558t 2008
U1  - 338.91096 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - Zed Books in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council, distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Africa
KW  - Asistencia económica
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Afrika. |
KW  - Política económica
KW  - Siglo XXI
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index; Time to think again -- The new aid era -- All aid's impacts: the bigger picture -- Pulling the strings: the reality of aid conditionality -- Institutions, institutions, institutions -- Aid, growth and confused academics -- A better future? -- Why is aid really going up? -- What is to be done?
N2  - Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems simple. Jonathan Glennie argues that government aid to Africa actually has many very harmful effects. He claims that aid has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services for poor people and damage to already precarious democratic institution
ER  -