Granted, many things are better in mission than actuality, but going strictly by where the envoy says the money is going, I think this is a great example of why Dambisa Moyo’s argument can’t be so cut and dry.
Roads and agriculture are two sectors capable of making a huge difference in the development of Uganda. That some of the funds are being directed to development projects in the north just make this government to government aid seem quite positive.
Problems could arise if there are requirements for Uganda tacked onto the funding, but otherwise, I see no downside to this package.
I’d love to hear some differing opinions, though.
In 2000, Africa became the focus of orchestrated world-wide pity, and not for the first time. The Nigerian humanitarian catastrophe of Biafra in 1971 (the same year as the Beatle George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh) had demanded that the world respond to human catastrophe. Consciousness was raised several notches with Bob Geldof ’s July 1985 Live Aid Concert where, with 1.5 billion people watching, public discourse became a public disco.
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An excerpt from Dead Aid.
I really want, neigh need, to read this book.
