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Geographic Question. What are the economic and humanitarian impacts of bilateral/multilateral aid and what are potential impacts of alternative forms of development?. World Bank’s Comparison of Aid Amounts to Income Growth. African countries with highest GDP per capita.

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  1. Geographic Question What are the economic and humanitarian impacts of bilateral/multilateral aid and what are potential impacts of alternative forms of development?

  2. World Bank’s Comparison of Aid Amounts to Income Growth

  3. African countries with highest GDP per capita Latin American Developing Nations GDP African countries w/ the lowest GDP per capita

  4. African Countries of Concern

  5. Dambisa Moyo on Aid

  6. Big Aid=source of continued poverty • Economic Policies: • Micro investments • International bonds • Domestic bonds • Trade w/ other developing nations • Trade w/ African nations • Easy Remittances • Savings

  7. PPP-based measures of gross fixed capital formation • Gross fixed capital formation: measure investment expenditures: purchases of equipment and construction services • *Africa lags far behind low investment efforts from nationals and foreign investors, high investment prices. African countries w/ higher investment rates: Gabon, Botswana, and Equatorial Guinea.

  8. Barriers to Inter-African Trade

  9. New Investors Chinese Investments Millennium Goal Cities in Africa

  10. Micro Finance

  11. Oxfam, Development Gap, Friends of the Earth • Merge U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) w/ State Department free-standing U.S. Agency for International Cooperation • USAIC • DAA: Development Assistance Administration • Sublevel for private NGO work • Staff regional offices to support local initiatives/priorities • Regional Office Responsibilities: • Invest in small producers • Support local aid organizations • Promote healthy families, education, environment • Keep DAA informed of local perspectives • Review all proposals of international aid packages for their area

  12. Water Data Regular Distortion: Access to Safe Water

  13. Small-Scale/Crisis Aid Chennai Marina beachIndonesian tsunami Dec. 2004 Water Filters

  14. Works Cited BBC HardTalk - Alison Evans and Dambisa Moyo. Prod. Overseas Developement Institute. Perf. Zeinab Badawi, Alison Evans, and Dambisa Moyo. Youtube.com. YouTube:Broadcast Yourself, 27 Mar. 2009. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dZw6nItu4&feature=related>. BRAC Microfinance Afghanistan. 2005. Photograph. Bracafg.org. BRAC Afghanistan, 2005. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://www.bracafg.org/mf2.php>. By Dambisa Moyo. Photograph. Www.cambridgeforecast.org. Cambridge Forecast Group, 26 Mar. 2009. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. <http://cambridgeforecast.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/dead-aid-book-dambisa-moyo/>. Dambisa Moyo. Photograph. Oglobo.globo.com. By Gilberto Scofield. Grupo de Diarios da America, 04 June 2009. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. <http://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/noimperio/default.asp?a=651&periodo=200904>. Cassidy, John.“Always With Us?” The New Yorker.www.newyorker.com, 11 Apr. 2005. Web. 28 Sept. 2009. <http://newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/11/0500411crbo_books?printable=true>. Ganapathi, Kausalya. Chennai Marina beach. 2004. Photograph. Project.slac.stanford.edu. Women's Interchange at SLAC, 5 Jan. 2005. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. Hydraid Biosand Water Filter. Photograph. Flickr.com. International Aid, 22 Sept. 2008. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/internationalaid/2879508911/>. “International Monetary Fund.” Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues and Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 19 Mar. 2007. Web. 14 Sept. 2009. <http://www.2facts.com/article/i0400730>.

  15. "Millennium Cities." Map. Vcc.columbia.edu. Columbia University. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/news/>. Moyo, Dambisa. Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2009. Print. "NGO Proposal on Foreign Aid Reform, 05/05/95." African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. Ed. Ali B. Ali-Dinar. University of Pennsylvania, 05 May 1995. Web. 12 Oct. 2009. <http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Urgent_Action/NGO_DC.html>. "Ownership in practice: The key to smart development Oxfam America." Oxfamamerica.org. Oxfam America, 21 Sept. 2009. Web. 11 Nov. 2009. <http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/ownership-in-practice-the-key-to-smart-development>. Photograph. Mma1.org. Million Member Assembly, 2003. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://www.mma1.org/Micro%20Enterprises%20in%20Africa.htm>. Rischard, Jean-Francois. High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Print. Rumminger, Marc, comp. "Mapping the World of Food and Water." Map. Growersand grocers.net. Growers and Grocers, 13 Feb. 2007. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://growersandgrocers.net/2007/02/13/mapping-the-world-of-food-and-water/>. Scher, Roger. "China's Foreign Direct Investment in Africa." Map. Risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com. Foreign Policy Association, 2 Aug. 2009. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/category/africa/>. U.S. Agency for International Developement, comp. "IRTG REPORT Map English-2." Map. Watradehub.com. West Africa Trade Hub, 2009. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://www.watradehub.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=727>.

  16. What is Safe Water? International Aid Water Initiatives - 2009. Prod. IntAid/ Hydraid. Youtube.com. YouTube:Broadcast Yourself, 12 Feb. 2009. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4D2d1tr34s>. World Bank, and Organization for Economic Co-opereration and Development, comps. "Aid and Per Capita Income Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa." Chart. Heritage.org. The Heritage Foundation, 3 Feb. 2006. Web. 4 Dec. 2009. <http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/hl922.cfm>. “World Bank.” Issues & Controversies on File: n. pag. Issues and Controversies. Facts on File News Services, 11 Apr. 2003. Web. 25 Sept. 2009. <http://www.2facts.com/article/i0800830>. World Food Programme, comp. "Countries of Concern." Map. Hewsweb.org. WFP Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch, Mar. 2009. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://www.hewsweb.org/home_page/default.asp>.

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