Aid and other dirty business : an insider uncovers how globalisation and good intentions have failed the world's poor / Giles Bolton.

By:

Bolton, Giles [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: [London] : Ebury, 2008.Description: 348 pages : illustrations, graphs (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN:

9780091914356

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HC800.Z9 P635 2008

Contents:

Introduction — Poverty : impossible choices — Aid : good intentions — Trade : dusty plains and unlevel playing fields — Globalisation : might and right — Change : action heroes.

Summary: Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. But the answers are much closer to home… and so are the solutions. When Giles Bolton began working in the world of aid and development, he travelled to Africa convinced that he could solve problems, save villages and sing songs with the locals under a shimmering sunset. The reality proved rather less romantic, and far more shocking… Aid and Other Dirty Business is a radical, brilliantly readable and totally original approach to the seemingly unending problem of poverty in Africa. It may change your life, but, more importantly, it will help you change the lives of others.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TBS Barcelona Libre acceso	HC800.Z9 BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		B02868

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-346).

Introduction — Poverty : impossible choices — Aid : good intentions — Trade : dusty plains and unlevel playing fields — Globalisation : might and right — Change : action heroes.

Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank.

But the answers are much closer to home… and so are the solutions.

When Giles Bolton began working in the world of aid and development, he travelled to Africa convinced that he could solve problems, save villages and sing songs with the locals under a shimmering sunset. The reality proved rather less romantic, and far more shocking…

Aid and Other Dirty Business is a radical, brilliantly readable and totally original approach to the seemingly unending problem of poverty in Africa. It may change your life, but, more importantly, it will help you change the lives of others.