Who Aids Whom? Exposing the True Story of Africa’s $192 Billion Losses!! Research released by a coalition of African and UK partners reveals that Africa loses almost six and a half times the amount of money that it receives in aid. False narratives. Debates on the role of wealthy governments in ending global poverty tend to focus on how much aid we should give. In fact, this aid obsession merely acts as a smokescreen that hides the true causes of global poverty and reinforces paternalistic notions of Africa as a poor and corrupt continent with helpless people in need of intervention from wealthy countries. Complicit countries However, Africa is not poor, though its people are being kept in poverty by a combination of inequitable policies, huge disparities in power, and criminal activities perpetuated and sustained by wealthy elites, both inside and outside the continent.For example, $35.3 billion a year is lost in illicit financial flows facilitated by the global network of tax havens. Action, not just aid Real progress on global poverty requires that politicians stop hiding behind this aid propaganda and instead take concrete action to tackle the real causes of poverty healthpovertyaction.org/campaigns/honest-accounts/
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:17:10 +0000
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