Does aid to Africa make things worse?
I know this one is from FrontPageMag.com, which is one reason I didn’t post it right away. But I have seldom seen a better example of how good intentions can make things worse. It’s an interview with Marvin Durkin. Durkin: Aid is like welfare writ large. But the mechanisms of destruction work in different ways and are ultimately even more devastating. Aid goes into Africa and is either snaffled by the ruling elite or their flunkies, or else, in shockingly small amounts, does what it’s meant to. Let’s look at the effects of the misappropriated aid first. Vast amounts of aid is siphoned off in various ways by the ruling elite. According to an old UN report, in 1991 alone, $200 billion of AID ended up in foreign private bank accounts of African politicians and government officials. In Kenya and elsewhere, government officials have larger foreign bank accounts than business people. If you want to get rich in Africa, you join the ruling party or get in with the mafia that masquerades as a c
