Moeletsi Mbeki's BBC Interview This Morning on Foreign Aid
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:36 am
Did any one get to listen to his interview on the Ethiopian famine and effectiveness of foreign aid ?
He made a very valid point stating that foreign aid does help in the short term but it is now being used to help advance corruption. He said some African governments now blackmail the international community into caring for their people instead of doing it themselves. He used the example of Ethiopia which he said spends hundreds of millions of dollars on arms procurement and fighting its neighbors instead of taking care of its citizens. He said that foreign NGOs and donors are essentially subsidizing these wars by allowing Meles to divert Ethiopian taxpayer funds to military ambitions instead of social programs which he leaves for the NGOs and donor groups.
He has written a booked called "Architects of Poverty".
http://panmacmillan.book.co.za/blog/200 ... -changing/
He made a very valid point stating that foreign aid does help in the short term but it is now being used to help advance corruption. He said some African governments now blackmail the international community into caring for their people instead of doing it themselves. He used the example of Ethiopia which he said spends hundreds of millions of dollars on arms procurement and fighting its neighbors instead of taking care of its citizens. He said that foreign NGOs and donors are essentially subsidizing these wars by allowing Meles to divert Ethiopian taxpayer funds to military ambitions instead of social programs which he leaves for the NGOs and donor groups.
He has written a booked called "Architects of Poverty".
http://panmacmillan.book.co.za/blog/200 ... -changing/