Choking on Aid?

By Max Borders | 7 July 2005

This eye-opening piece by Wiedermann and Thielke in Der Spiegel provides a micro-view of aid and some of its deleterious consequences:

Already today there are increasing numbers of Africans who call for an end to this sort of support. They believe that it simply benefits a paternalistic economy, supports corruption, weakens trade and places Africans into the degrading position of having to accept charity. "Just stop this terrible aid," says the Kenyan economic expert James Shikwati.

Another title for this piece could have been "How Need is Created."