Andrew Neil on making poverty history

By Penny Hawthorne | 5 June 2005

The Business (a weekly newspaper in the UK published each Sunday) has an interesting editorial by Andrew Neil:

We know how countries become rich and which policies they should pursue; what we do not know is how to convince countries such as Zimbabwe or Sudan to make the right choices. The lesson of Iraq, which remains in a state of violence and chaos despite the best efforts of Britain and America, is that neo-colonialism is no more the answer than Make Poverty History. But perhaps if we treated the worst dictators as pariahs rather than coddling them with Geldofian largesse, we might just see the back of them sooner rather than later.