Why aid has become one of Africa's biggest problems
24 October 2010
Foreign donor organisations often end up exacerbating issues that require local solutions, writes Greg Mills
Aid to Africa
27 May 2009
By Michael Holman
Arena (Michael Holman): Of course aid corrupts. The evidence is there, from Congo to Kenya. And who can doubt that most aid to Africa does not work: a greater percentage of Kenyans today live in poverty than at independence some 45 years ago, despite billions of dollars of foreign assistens.
Aid to Africa: not only mad, but dangerous to receive.
Africa needs confidence, not more aid
18 March 2005
For 40 years, western-led donors have been putting money into Africa. Yet its citizens have got poorer. So how do aid ministers and NGOs justify this wasteful spending?
At least we all agree on one thing; Africa is in a mess.
A calamity contained but not resolved
19 October 1985
Bob Geldof, the Irish pop singer, who has come to personify a fresh approach to aid – a generous man-in-the-street response to disaster couppled with an impatience over red tape – arrives in Ethiopia today.