"Aiding [Africa] is Abetting", says Dambisa Moyo

[ijon]

Another excellent article I've recently read is this Guernica Magazine interview with economist Dambisa Moyo, who explains why sending money to Africa can't bring change. This agrees with my own tentative conclusions based on what I learn from occasional articles by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times and in the New York Review of Books, though

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Ishmael

[ladypine]

See also Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. He claims that the main effect of monetary help to third world countries is increasing their population and shifting the balance of food chain further from how many people the country can support. In the opposite model, he presents an "interview" with a traditional tribe. He asks a person of the tribe: "what do you do when there is not enough food?" and the person simply says "we die". Meaning, the population of the people is reduced to accommodate to the reduced food supply, thus obeying the ecological system, instead of overriding and destroying.