Andrew Mwenda, speaking at TED Global 2007 in Arusha, on African aid. Photograph: Andrew Heavens for TED.com
In gauging the net impact foreign aid has had in Africa, speakers at Cambridge Union Society reframed the debate as the antithesis of aid-fuelled statism and home-grown entrepreneurship. By concentrating capital in government hands, foreign aid was said to crowd out the domestic private sector: “We don’t need aid, we have so many entrepreneurs, creative people,” Andrew Mwenda (more...)
