Tag: international aid
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Does Aid Work? The Aid Audit
Does Aid Work? The Aid Audit: Below is a summary of this World Service Podcast from 2015 Intro ‘Fifteen years ago, German journalist, Ulli Schauen helped compile a book of the top 500 global aid programmes… they ranged from schools for Maasai nomads to support for organic farming to training for volunteer sexual health workers.…
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Jeffery Sachs: Arguments for Aid
This post summarises the views of Jeffry Sachs, for a broader post on this topic please see this post here. Jeffry Sachs in ‘The End of Poverty’ (2005) makes the case for increasing spending on aid to developing countries. Taken mainly from chapters 12-16 (1) Why is Aid needed? Sachs argues that injections of aid…
