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Tuesday 20 September 2011
Is aid to Africa worthless?
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Children from the Darfur region look from inside their shelter in Khartoum 17 September, 2011
Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
By Brent Gregston

Is aid to Africa working or not? Does it really help poor people? Can scientific methods take the guesswork out of development aid? For more than fifteen years the economist Esther Duflo has worked with the poor in dozens of countries trying to find proven solutions to the problems of poverty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

tags : Aid - Development - Poverty
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