Africa with Dambisa Moyo 

" there you are simply transferring the wealth that has already been created by others but you are not transferring the ability to create that wealth" Thomas Sowell

I just found out about this great woman today, amazing Economist, my new mentor

This lady is indeed smart, honest, and direct. She could be advisor to the African Union organisation provided they let her in. The problem would be that some chiefs of african nations may not apply her policies or proposals,, and the feasible tactics towards economic grown at a global scale. So application to tested solutions should be real; they should, in the absence of corruption and complacent attitide where the rule of law isn t a joke. Please, work with Presidents Kagame, Magufuli and few others to craft some long-term solid solutions. Thanks for the great interview! I learned a lot.

this lady is a genius

Thomas Sowell has said the same thing decades ago concerning aid, it is sad we still have the same debate today.

Very interesting and enlightening argument. More of this type of thinking and reflection please!

Eritrea has been preaching this for years

She is very logic and sees things as it is, not blinded by ideologies

Less BONO More MOYO

Such a breath of fresh air to hear someone eloquently and persuasively, criticise the 'pop-star politicians'. ...I would love to see Geldoff debate Moyo on this!

Agreed. Self reliance raises people. We have exported the dysfunctional model of "aid" by essentially establishing the welfare state with all its fraud and abuse. How many leaders have been enriched while their population starves?

This sista talking true... Africa can do for self.

People who truly care about you are those who help you in your hardship. Friends will not try to exploit you. They give you a lending hand.

She see's African's as people, not a victim class to be pitied globally. Every question anyone asked was pretty much "African's can't do anything because of reasons". Africa is not a pet project for the U.S. to go and send their ego filled "good people" to prove to themselves and the world that they are "oh so good". She is advocating for long term growth plans within countries who have been babied, and talked down to since WW2, and everyone's response? How dare she suggest that our charity doesn't help, They should be so lucky that we give them so much, besides the ability to figure stuff out for themselves.

One of the smartest women on the planet! Wake 'em up, Dambisa...blindly giving is easier then thinking. “Give a hungry men a fish and he will fill his stomach for a day, teach a hungry men to fish and he will fill his stomach for the rest of his life!” (BP may change this old Chinese proverb.)

Very Interesting thesis. Unfortunately giving work to a farmer in Tanzania isn't as exciting as a rock concert. But the successes of rwanda might turn a few heads and be the proof in the pudding.

Purely true we need benevolent dictator period. Look at Rwanda now

Very good points throughout, and the message.

yes she is an academic but Africa doesn't need western Ideas for our progress, we need our own Ideas (African renaissance, defined by Cheik anta Diop and Nkrumah) thanks

I am so prod of you that is the only way to teach to African leaders, buy stopping the drug and helping them to work hand to hand with their own people. Thank for that Moyo. Again African problem have to be solved by Africans. because we know who the problem is created.

It's sadly unsurprising that Bono and his ONE Campaign (pretty much an empty exercise in boosting Bono's ego and branding) are so vocal about "helping Africans/women," yet expose their hypocrisy by demonizing an African woman seeking long-term positive change and talking sense. If not for double standards, Bono wouldn't have standards at all.

I could not agree anymore. The African economy needs the greater acquisition of skills/education, the constructing of infrastructure, voter and market confidence etc, none of which can be developed long term with the strictly short term benefits of charitable donation. Plus, she is pretty hot, marriage material. But if Chinese trade and investment can help with all this, what is the problem? The Chinese do know a thing or to about bringing regions out of poverty.

This is fascinating.

Please bring her back on!

Awesome!

give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Phenomenal woman with phenomenal ideas.

Something is wrong in Africa. And finally someone dares bring up an alternative to the only toowell known NGO approach. The NGO's are basically managing the poor and the poor justify their existence. So where is their incentive to actually help lift them up and out of poverty? And by donating to this approach we can 'buy' ourselves a good and clean conscience... Where is the sustainability in creating a dependency relationship between the doner and the beneficiary? And why SO many huge and expensive NGO cars in the streets of Ethiopia? That money should go to the beneficiaries - not to improve the living and work conditions of the NGO employees; the business of "glamour aid" as Miss Moyo calls it. Look to China - their appproach in Africa is business and this is a two-way approach where both parties benefit. Much more sustainable in the long run - IF the right conditions for a healthy business approach are being kept. This is sensitive discusssion but it is necessary and it is definately time to bring it up. For something is definately wrong in Africa...

Some aid is clearly counterproductive, can create a dependency culture but more important issues are highly counterproductive international policies, Western tariffs/protectionist policies, the historical imbalance in trade/power, Western support of tyrants in developing, colonial legacy, the devil is in the detail while those depending on some form of aid for survival need structured, proven alternatives before aid should be ceased, which i think would be a very drastic thing to do.

@GaiusIuliusTaberna Yes they do need that but they do not have the technology or knowhow to make these drugs therefor they need an education which they can't get without money, its a cycle that needs to be broken but can not be fixed by one simple factory being added to the country.

You're right

how is that working out so far?

Sounds eerily similar to the welfare system here in the United States.

Please explain.

Coloration = causation.

Bono, Bob Geldorf and the rest of them should be facing trial for crimes against humanity........

in italianooooooo pleaseeeeeeee

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