It’s anyone’s guess whether Dead Aid, the title of Dambisa Moyo’s new book, will become as famous a phrase as “Live Aid,” the 1985 rock music extravaganza that raised money for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Thanks to a spring flood of publicity, however, Moyo’s catchy, unabashedly derivative title is now part of the economic lexicon, and her thesis that aid has done mor (...)
August 14, 2009
Books
Money for Nothing?
Dead AidWhy Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for AfricaDambisa MoyoFarrar, Straus & Giroux, $24, 208 pp.
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