Experts Rap Donors Over Poverty

Posted to the web 3 October 2008 Anne Mugisa Kampala Research experts have accused donors of deliberately undermining poverty eradication efforts on the African continent by withholding financial and technical commitments. Only 30% of the donor commitments have been dispersed, said Prof. Mohammed Salih the chairman of Politics of Development at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. He said 70% of the financial and technical commitments are never delivered and yet the donors, including the World Bank and the International monetary Fund (IMF), expect the African countries to perform perfectly. The researchers were meeting yesterday for a two-day regional conference on poverty reduction for Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Rwanda, at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala. Salih noted that the failure by the World Trade... [read full story]