[governance] Re: Does Africa Needs Help?

[David Goldstein]

Stephane's comment is just like saying all African governments are incompetent and corrupt. It's partly true, it's changing, but definitely not always the case.


----- Original Message ----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 19 June, 2008 7:53:05 PM
Subject: [governance] Re: Does Africa Needs Help?

> Some recipient governments grasp exactly what donors want to hear,
> readily agreeing to 'capacity building' programmes emphasising
> increased accountability. They dutifully echo the donor's jargon,
> while laughing behind our backs, and flicking through the latest
> Mercedes catalogue for their new ministerial limousine.

A long paper to avoid the obvious conclusion: aid is not intended to
help the local people but to subsidize northern industries such as
Mercedes (as in the above example) or Cisco (to take a example closer
from our field). That way, most aid will come back to the North. 


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