Aid to Africa: donations from west mask ’$60bn looting’ of continent | Global development | theguardian.com
►http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/15/aid-africa-west-looting-continent
UK and wealthy states revel in their generosity while allowing their companies to plunder Africa’s resources, say NGOs
Plus qu’à corriger l’URL pour que le triangle s’affiche ;-)
Note que je n’ai pas (encore) mis en copie @seenthis :-D
’The Future of Aid’ - Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries
▻http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/12/12/2013/donors%E2%80%99-dilemma-aid-reverse-how-poor-countries-develop-
The idea of international development aid lies at the heart of a tremendously successful PR campaign. The narrative we have been sold claims that aid has been effective at reducing global poverty. Here I will argue that there are three problems with this narrative. First, poverty is not disappearing, despite what we have been told to believe. Second, aid disbursements from rich countries to poor countries are dwarfed by wealth flows that run in the other direction, to the point where poor countries are effectively developing rich countries. Third, and perhaps most critically, aid is not actually designed to reduce poverty, but operates as a tool that the elites of rich countries leverage to extract wealth, resources, and political compliance. By eliding these problems, the aid paradigm prevents development practitioners – and the public – from understanding the real causes of poverty, and therefore precludes meaningful solutions.