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Category Archives: Aid to Africa
Farewell, CIDA
(April 2, 2013) Now-abolished foreign aid pork barrel won’t be missed. Patricia Adams’ epitaph for CIDA. Continue reading
Despite the best of famous intentions
(November 13, 2012) A new documentary asks whether celebrity-led crusades to relieve poverty and hunger, such as Bob Geldof’s Live Aid mega-concerts in the 1980s, have actually made a difference. Continue reading
Posted in Aid to Africa, Foreign Aid
Tagged aid dependency, Bob Geldof, celebrity activism, charity culture, Corruption, Live Aid
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Grand Inga Dam: Another white elephant for the DR Congo
(November 21, 2011) An article in the Daily Maverick argues that the proposed Grand Inga Dam in the DR Congo is a “beautiful vision” that would “fix Africa” by “lighting up the heart of darkness”, powering African industries and forcing countries to rely on each other. Continue reading
Posted in Africa, African Development Bank, Aid to Africa, World Bank (Foreign Aid)
Tagged Africa, congo, grand inga, inga, Mao, Three Gorges
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Bill Gates: Foreign Aid 2.0
(May 27, 2011) Bill Gates’ version of foreign aid should look to Microsoft’s original recipe for success to empower Africa. Continue reading
International aid’s ‘dirty secret’
(February 10, 2011) Images from the protests in Egypt have put the relationship between funding security and development in the spotlight Continue reading
Africa’s stolen medicine
(January 27, 2011) In Geneva on Wednesday, Stephen Harper predicted that the $40-billion United Nations initiative on maternal care will create a “wave of hope” across the developing world. No one doubts that hope is desperately needed. In Canada, a woman’s lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth is one in 5,600. In Niger, it’s one in 16. Continue reading
The merry-go round of aid: Foreign aid goes in and comes out in developing countries flush with cash
(Dececember 30, 2010) Brady Yauch writes that a recent World Bank program in India has reignited the debate on when “developing” countries should stand on their own two feet. Continue reading
Posted in Aid to Africa, Foreign Aid
Tagged Aid to Africa, Brady Yauch, Corruption, taxes
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Zambia corruption scandal links back to Canada
(November 15, 2010) A corruption scandal in Zambia involving top officials in the Health Ministry has links to Canadian foreign aid, writes Brady Yauch. Continue reading
