Philosophical café: Moyo vs Bono
Description
According to Dambisa Moyo, passive "aid" like the free advice that Engineers Without Borders wants to offer would undermine the capitalist system in which ideas are worth money. Since aid has so far failed to improve things, the capitalist system must now take over. Sachs, with Bono as his biggest fan, on the other hand, argues instead that if we provide more aid now then we can still solve the problems of developing countries in our generation as the West.
Read more:
Guardian book review: The end of poverty by Jeffrey Sacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/apr/23/highereducation.news2
The Independet book review: Dead aid by Dambisa Moyo
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/dead-aid-by-dambisa-moyo-1519875.html
Volkskrant book review: Dead aid by Dambisa Moyo http://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/article1159630.ece/Dambisa_Moyo_is_het_antwoord_op_Bono
NRC book review: Planetary rescue is how you do it: Jeffrey Sachs and this earth's problems
http://www.nrcboeken.nl/recensie/planeetredden-doe-je-zo
Broadcast of Winter guests with Jeffrey Sachs:
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/wintergasten/afleveringen/40168718/
Diva's in debate: Is development aid rightly blamed for Africa's growth deficit? Double interview: Economists Dambisa Moyo and Marcia Luyten
http://www.isonline.nl/?node_id=65179
Tegenlicht documentary. What if: aid stops.
http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=10355988&start=00:00:00
NRC book review: $1,000,000,000,000 didn't help
http://www.nrcboeken.nl/recensie/1000000000000000000-dollar-hielpen-niet#1
Location
Prinsessegracht 23, The Hague
Organiser
KIVI International Engineers
Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship
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