The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working | Robert Calderisi

The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working | Robert Calderisi | There really is trouble

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	The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working Robert Calderisi Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa?s misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the continent.
Here we learn that Africa has steadily lost markets by its own mismanagement, that even capitalist countries are anti-business, that African family values and fatalism are more destructive than tribalism, and that African leaders prey intentionally on Western guilt. Calderisi exposes the shortcomings of foreign aid and debt relief, and proposes his own radical solutions.
Drawing on thirty years of first hand experience, The Trouble with Africa highlights issues which have been ignored by Africa?s leaders but have worried ordinary Africans, diplomats, academics, business leaders, aid workers, volunteers, and missionaries for a long time. It ripples with stories which only someone who has talked directly to African farmers--and heads of state--could recount.
Calderisi?s aim is to move beyond the hand-wringing and finger-pointing which dominates most discussions of Africa. Instead, he suggests concrete steps which Africans and the world can take to liberate talent and enterprise on the continent.

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IF you want to get a great idea of the screwed up programs and screwed up governments of the continent, then read this book. The author does a great job descibing the situations and their historical significance. I learned a lot about Africa. He tells things people don't want to hear.

There really is trouble

For those that can go this way and that, there is trouble in Africa, there is trouble with Africa. Without placing blame squarely on the shoulders of the guilty, there will be no resolution. While the author lived only a couple of places in Africa, the indictment of the continent as a whole is not too far from the mark. Foreign aid does not work, because they are getting too much of what they really don't need which is lots and lots of money and no way to manage it except stealing it and whisking it away to banking institutions abroad. There are far too many well meaning Americans and Europeans that see the problems with a filter and fail to grasp the magnitude of the problems on the continent. For instance, instead of sending people to live in Africa, to learn and understand what is going to work, everyone sends money, money and more money. Someone props up this dictator for 10 years or so and then wonders why he spits in their face when the winds change and we ask him to behave. Africa and the Middle East were the two areas that were carved up by colonial powers in the 1800s and 1900s, the middle east is beginning to recover and come into its own, Africa is in far worse shape. This book does bring ideas back to the discussion regarding why it is in turmoil and how the rest of the world can manage it.

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