Aid to Africa Debate: Q & A, part 5 (12 of 14)

The motion: "Aid to Africa is doing more harm than good"

Moderator: Brian Lehrer
Speaking for the motion: George Ayittey, William Easterly and David Rieff
Speaking against the motion: C. Payne Lucas, John McArthur and Gayle Smith

IQ2US marks the launch of Oxford-style debating -- one motion, one moderator, three advocates for the motion, three against -- in New York City. Each evening begins at 6:00P with a complimentary cocktail period. As you enter the theater before the debate starts at 6:45P, you cast your vote for or against the evening's motion. Those results are displayed midway through the debate as each side makes its statements. After all six panelists speak, the audience has a chance to ask the speakers questions and vote again. The debate finishes with brief summations from the panelists, the votes are tallied and a winning side is declared.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• intelligence
• squared
• u.s.
• iq2
• debate
• africa
• foreign
• aid
• development
• corruption
• poverty

[charbonelle]

Africans can redeem control over their land and resources by accumulating and ministering capital, organize industry catering to under-served [low -income i.e the global majority] markets by way of commercial enterprise in the form of :

Social Enterprise  --(Social Programs that are turn into businesses)

Small and Medium Enterprise -- (Businesses that use a franchise model)

Co-operative Corporation -- ( Integrates: credit unions, worker co-op and R&D)

In this way Africans can be self-reliant.

[jemahika]

Prof. Ayittey speak the truth where other penalists speak somethin none sense and psydo ideas...

[creepiestdani]

Consider these two cases:

- aiding a sick man by giving him medicine

- aiding a beggar by giving him food

The first case has a *finality* -- you give him medicine until he gets well. The second, on the other hand, does not -- you have to give him food *indefinitely*, if not addressing the underlying problem that is *poverty*

[creepiestdani]

So there are two distinct types of aid. I think anyone would agree that the second type of aid clearly does no good in the larger picture, because it does not solve anything, unlike the first type of aid which does. The successful application of the first type of aid has been given by those against the motion as evidence in favour of their position. But what if the sickness in the first case has poverty as one of its causes?...

[TorBarstad]

Seriously, John McArthur owns! ;)