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Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo — WisdomDeck honest review

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Dead Aid

by Dambisa Moyo

A Zambian economist argues aid has harmed Africa and proposes markets, bonds and trade instead. Short and polemical.

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Aid can entrench.
Markets and trade.
Listen to African economists.

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