Dambisa Moyo: Cut Off Aid to Africa.
Wired put out a brief article about this woman, Dambisa Moyo, who is a Zambian transplant Goldman Sachs banker who is loudly advocating for the cutting off of aid to Africa (specifically, aid offered to governments, which manage it poorly and/or corruptly, not to cut it off to people directly). The loud and outraged national response to her explanations reminds me of my favorite class at Cornell, taught by Dr. Chris Barrett, Contemporary Controversies in the Global Economy , which I was also a TA for during my senior year.
How do we fix the economy of developing nations? Is it our responsibility to be concerned with how corrupt their governments are? What do we do to help? Who has the right idea?
Sometimes I miss school. I just know the students of that class would have come up with some clever ways to address Moyo’s position. I, myself, would have to think long and hard before I put pen to paper for THAT essay.
