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The author of 'The Trouble with Aid: Why less could mean more for Africa', to be published later this year, says aid is complex and more is not always better A woman sits with her child in a hospital in Accra. According to Glennie, analysts describe Ghana's budget as a 'deceptive mirage'. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP Sub-Saharan Africa is poor. If rich countries send it money it will be less poor and people living in poverty will be better off. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Moved by persistent poverty in Africa, millions of people have joined campaigns to persuade their governments to give more aid to Africa. But it is not that simple. Our focus on increasing aid is obscuring the far more important things that rich governments can do to help end poverty in Africa. And while aid often does a lot of good, when we look at... [read full story]
