HLF 3: Aid-Bashing to Go High-Fashion in Accra

Ich kann ihn auch nicht mehr hören, den Ruf nach mehr Geld in der EZ!

www.ghanaweb.com:

Feature Article of Saturday, 26 July 2008

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The damaging effects of increased aid, even the type that ticks all the checkboxes on the "best practice evaluation form" on the culture of enterprise and innovation, as has been oft-lamented by African entrepreneurs like Herman Chinery-Hesse, will scant receive attention. Herman's concerns that even the most conscientious technocrats, like a number he is acquainted with in his native Ghana, become impediments to innovation and enterprise in an aid-dominated political culture, which is the case across Africa, are unlikely to be heard.

Expect every call to be about the need to increase aid and to improve "participation". Participation will, as we have argued above, mean the same thing as "increase aid". But actually, to be fair, the exact meaning is: "Increase Aid With Style".

Bright B. Simons & Franklin Cudjoe are Libertarians affiliated with IMANI (www.imanighana.com) and www.AfricaLiberty.org"

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Links:

>> High-Level Forum 3 on Aid Effectiveness (1. - 4. Sept, Accra/Ghana. Nachfolgekonferenz des HLF 2 in 2005 in Paris, die die Paris Declaration hervorbrachte)

>> Civil Society Forum on Aid Effectiveness (1. - 4. Sept, Accra/Ghana. Parallelveranstaltung der CSOs zum HLF 3)