Australia is giving money to one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world: Zimbabwe.
Australia will provide $10 million to help Prime Minister Tsvangirai and the so called inclusive Government of Zimbabwe to restore basic water, sanitation and health services and relieve the suffering of the Zimbabwean people.
Some serious skepticism about this at Agmates Rural [...]
Bill Gates, world’s richest person, donates a staggeringly huge amount of money to charity. But he doesn’t just write a check to UNESCO or the Red Cross. He and his wife have their own foundation – the Gates Foundation – that enables them to donate money wherever they want.
I guess that’s one of the perks [...]
Aid does not work.
Despite a trillion dollars of aid to Africa over many years, the place is worse than ever. But is aid actually creating the problem it is supposed to be solving? Author and economist Dambisa Moyo thinks so.
She says that when it comes to other poor countries, for example, Asian countries, the discussion [...]