Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor

Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank.
But the answers are much closer to home... and so are the solutions
When Giles Bolton began working in the world of aid and development, he travelled to Africa convinced that he could solve problems, save villages and sing songs with the locals under a shimmering sunset. The reality proved rather less romantic, and far more shocking...
Aid and Other Dirty Business is a radical, brilliantly readable and totally original approach to the seemingly unending problem of poverty in Africa. It may change your life, but, more importantly, it will help you change the lives of others.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development (No-Nonsense Guides)
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
- Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
- Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
- The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence