TY - BOOK AU - Glennie,Jonathan ED - International African Institute. ED - Royal African Society. ED - Social Science Research Council (U.S.) TI - The trouble with aid: why less could mean more for Africa T2 - African arguments SN - 9781848130395 (hbk.) AV - HC800 .G54 2008 U1 - 338.91096 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - Zed Books in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council, distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Economic assistance KW - Africa KW - Armut KW - swd KW - Entwicklungspolitik KW - Entwicklungshilfe KW - Economic policy KW - 21st century KW - Afrika N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index; Time to think again -- The new aid era -- All aid's impacts: the bigger picture -- Pulling the strings: the reality of aid conditionality -- Institutions, institutions, institutions -- Aid, growth and confused academics -- A better future? -- Why is aid really going up? -- What is to be done? N2 - Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems simple. Jonathan Glennie argues that government aid to Africa actually has many very harmful effects. He claims that aid has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services for poor people and damage to already precarious democratic institutions ER -