BBC Daily Politics - Dambisa Moyo discusses better solutions to Afrcan aid

[FikiNom]

Dambisa makes me so proud! She is unfazed! Even BBC's Zainab Badawi was acting like Glenn Beck when she was interviewing her.

Sidenote: If my eyes were closed I would have thought he was a black man from South Africa. I need to check him out but I think he is South African ;)

[43findnemo]

Damn, the interviewer cut off the debate right there after Naidoo's speech about Zimbabwe. Naidoo brought up something interesting. I wonder how moyo would respond to the situation in Zimbabwe. Damn, interviewer!!

[revenantwings7]

That woman is very intelligent

[sadzaNEmuto]

Granted colonialism put Africa on the backfoot but to think that we're going to get reparations is foolishness.Most African countries have been independent for over 2decades but all cries of re-comp have fallen on deaf ears.Does anyone seriously think they give a damn?They're sitting pretty while we beat our gums demanding reparations.We're suffering,not them so we ought to get our bloody act together&be industrious.If they didn't care then,wat the hell makes you think they give a damn now?

[0Moreno0]

AID dont do shit.

[JordanjamesX]

Sonnytheudue makes a good point, Africa is suffering from a "brain drain" the most educated and talented Africans are leaving the African continent for the western world. Maybe, Dambisa Moyo should move back to Zambia and help her people there? Maybe, if more talented, educated, Africans actually stayed on the continent instead of moving to the west things would be better?

[msquestionmark]

she's right. africans need to help themselves. it's so sad seeing all the ghastly conditions they live under. the governments are corrupt and the IMF gives them aid and money which ends up making the leaders rich and doesn't help the people.

[tekenareuben]

The entire AID cartel knows that as long as Africa continues to rely on it, the continent will never dismantle the Western economic control over it.

The AID cartel will always financially and military support an African dictatorship that will maintain the global financial status quo. As long as that dictatorship cooperate it is democratic in the eyes of the Western world.

An African govt that rejects aid is labelled as undemocratic and liable to trading sanctions and coups.

[inder19852000]

Africa can develop if it copies the developmental path taken by countries like India and China.Intellectuals in Africa must come forward to influence the policy making of their governments out there.

[tekenareuben]

No African country will ever evolve if it continues to depend on AID. The so called African elite, the so called World Bank and the IMF are making a killing to the detriment of ordinary Africans.

The African elite don't find it productive to sit with their domestic entreprenuers and carve out policies coming out from the business initiatives and successes of these group of individuals.

They think the whole AID cartel knows best and the cartel itself likes it that way.

[Craigvadams]

They are intimidated by her energy, bravery, brilliance, and beauty!

by the way I like the book too!

[CoPiloT21]

Double talk like a politician

Dambisa knows what she is talking about

[naizaday]

Please lets not get it wrong she is not saying shocked end to aid, but that we should ahve in our mind that it should end despite us needing to be compensated

[bdelder42]

Forget the word Aid for a moment and just consider involvement. Anyones involvement can have three basic effects. A negative effect, no effect or a positive effect.  If what you are doing is having a negative effect, regardless of what you call it, it is not aid. Giving away 3 mil bednets is great but represents $30 mil. In 5 years ALL that money will be lost as the net will reach its life expectancy. The question that should be ringing in our ears is Can we do better? Fair question?

[Sonnythedude]

Good that Dambisa has flagged the 'Aid' issue. However to blame Africa's slow economic progress on this issue only is untrue. The way AID is given has changed over the years. AID is now tied to certain parameters being met such as good governance & free democratic elections as well as certain economic benchmarks. Nevertheless the key issue should be building strong transparent instituitions and efficient justice systems where people/leaders can account for actions or inactions like in the West

[bumisworld]

As an African, I know many of the countries recieving 'Aid' dont exactly spend it on 'Aid'.

Economic development is the way forward and i dont understand why these African governments sit on their arses

[CrowdPleeza]

As far as other market reform models. I think Africans could look to Estonia and Poland to learn how to expand the privatization of state run businesses.

[davidg1234]

Yeah...she should go back from where she came from, keep her head down, let the NGOs do all the talking.......because we all know that will work. 60 years and counting.

[Sonnythedude]

Dambisa is saying nothing new here. However its harder for Africa to prosper when there is 'brain drain' on the continent? Educated people like her leave Africa to work and live in Europe or USA where the wages are higher. She should practice what she preaches and therefore go back to Africa and become an 'entrepenuer' a term she likes to use often.

[CrowdPleeza]

Which African gov'ts are entreprenur friendly? Many post colonial leaders nationalized their economies. That's not the best enviroment for entreprenurs.

[appiah29]

Dambisa, the question is not whether aid has worked or not worked. But is your 'stop aid' argument a sound one to make in a world controlled by powerful capitalist interests against less powerful interests in Africa? So it would rather be sound and of practical benefit to Africans to focus on the building or strengthening of the weak institutional capacities that constrains the effective use of aid for pro-poor growth/economic development.

[sguardian870]

Thequestion on zimbabwe is dumb who in their right mind anywhere in the world would want to loan a black man supressing white money to boost his economy im mean hellohave u lost ur mind.