A Prescription for Development: Curing What Ails Foreign Aid to Africa
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Publisher
The CAT Company Inc
Language
en-US
Abstract
Far too often images emerging from Africa depict poverty, disaster, conflict, and suffering. With increasing regularity industrialized nations express their intentions to provide additional development aid to assist Africa with ameliorating the poverty responsible for much of the suffering experienced by so many on the Continent. Despite the best intentions on the part of donor countries, efforts to uplift debtor nations frequently fail to meet or fall far short of articulated expectations. At the 2005 Summit, G8 members answered former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's call for increasing aid to Africa and pledged to commit additional resources to development aid. Today however these pledged goals have not been reached. In the current climate of global economic downturn Africa's actual receipt of these pledged resources appears to be increasingly remote. In the meantime, images of African misery and suffering continue to capture the public imagination.
Recommended Citation
Erika George,
A Prescription for Development: Curing What Ails Foreign Aid to Africa
,
in
Summit 2009
G8 Summit Magazine
60
(2009).
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