When Dambisa Moyo, author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, was in Toronto recently, she was accosted by aid advocates and journalists for daring to say Africa does not need aid, it needs investment.
Stephen Lewis, former United Nations special envoy on HIV-AIDS in Africa, said Ms. Moyo's characterization of aid as harmful to the continent's people was “controversial.” Mr. Lewis was Ms. Moyo's foremost opponent in a Munk Debate on the effects of aid to Africa
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