BBC Newsnight: How The West Was Lost

Dambisa Moyo discusses the thesis of her new book "How The West Was Lost: 50 Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead" with host Kirsty Wark and Dr Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute (10 Jan 2011).

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News & Politics

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• Economics
• Financial Crisis
• Dambisa Moyo
• Protectionism
• Default
• Economy
• America
• United States
• China

[areyouglobal]

Dr. Moyo is the voice of reason and the future. I loved Dead Aid, I will be sharing this book with everyone I know.

[northernhat]

Irwin Stelzer - your typical dinosaur who is holding to the old way of doing business and old thinking. His head is so far up his ass that he can't see what is going on in the real world. He is so typical of the 'American economist'.

The sooner his kind leave the planet and the economy to new thinkers and new paradigms will see the necessary revolution take root. As long as his ilk remains a 'credible source', the future is dark.

[TimEngle]

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”

[sevvendee7]

I remember watching this programme. Dambisa's arguments are compelling (even though, quite often, unexpected, unforeseen events and innovations often emerge from the "left field" to confound conventional wisdom and change the course of history). I Can't choose between an attractive, brilliant, young African woman and an alluring mature, velvety voiced, Scottish brogue speaking white woman!!

[inboxme83]

This is one daughter of Africa who is shining the light and showing the way. It's a call to African youths out there- it's in you. What can change our continent for the better is all in you, just reach out and develop those potentials.

Dambisa Moyo is an erudite scholar and prolific writer, I bet this new book is another classic- just as Dead Aid was. Hope to read it soon. Thank you for posting these reviews.

I'm African and I'm proud of you.

[CatherineDeLancret]

The old saying goes 'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.'

[nokiwe7]

This man should SHUT UP and listen 'Dambisa knows what she is talking about she is an AFRICAN born and Bred ..This Man is talking' from what he watches on Tele!-We all know that Western aid is dead indeed but that's how the WEST want to keep Africa as a dark Continent..'' Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

[ukusapillage]

i think with tech available dictortors and large countrys with massive numbers of citizens like china and resources or money will win, china will win beacause it was a iron hand controlling all things and with strategy based on growth and smart politics the usa is a tired uk colonial war thinking country with lazy corrrupted distracted ppl, look at all colonial powers all fell beacause that and debt and usa will fall aswell, democracy also worked against us, we need national protec. were soft

[pantyflash]

Like, you're absolutely gorgeous, and brilliant, too. You go, girl!

[andrelebaron]

I didn't find him very convincing when he claimed the US was on its way to solving its deficit problems. I see no evidence of that. The US is going to do what it always does, create a Pearl Harbor style crisis before it reacts.

[Dimitri0809]

So when does china overtake the US as the best most innovative economy in the world?