"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

24 September 2011

More Dowden on African Aid

More from Richard Dowden, from his great work, "Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" :

"...when the 'right answers' are found by the Africans themselves, moderate amounts of external funding can help speed up the process of development. But when outsiders decree the solution and pour in money, most aid is wasted. In some places it has destroyed local initiative and held Africa back."