The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working

Calderisi, Robert

ISBN 10: 1403971250 / ISBN 13: 9781403971258

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 2006

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After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa's misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the continent.
Here we learn that Africa has steadily lost markets by its own mismanagement, that even capitalist countries are anti-business, that African family values and fatalism are more destructive than tribalism, and that African leaders prey intentionally on Western guilt. Calderisi exposes the shortcomings of foreign aid and debt relief, and proposes his own radical solutions.
Drawing on thirty years of first hand experience, The Trouble with Africa highlights issues which have been ignored by Africa's leaders but have worried ordinary Africans, diplomats, academics, business leaders, aid workers, volunteers, and missionaries for a long time. It ripples with stories which only someone who has talked directly to African farmers--and heads of state--could recount.
Calderisi's aim is to move beyond the hand-wringing and finger-pointing which dominates most discussions of Africa. Instead, he suggests concrete steps which Africans and the world can take to liberate talent and enterprise on the continent.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: A former director of the World Bank and 1968 Quebec Rhodes Scholar, Robert Calderisi studied history in Montreal, economics at Oxford, and African history at the University of Sussex. He has lived and worked in Africa for more than thirty years and is the author of two critically acclaimed books: The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working (2006) and Earthly Mission: The Catholic Church and World Development (2013).

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Titel: The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid ...
Verlag: St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: Hardcover
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