آفریقا اهمیتی ندارد: چگونه غرب در برابر فقیرترین قاره شکست خورده و چه کاری می‌توانیم در این باره انجام دهیم

What happens to the billions of aid dollars given yearly? Why do trade rules that fail African countries also cost us at the checkout line? Why don’t the African people matter? In this engaging, jargon-free, reader-friendly guide, longtime aid worker and diplomat Giles Bolton offers his radical analysis of the problems Africa faces, drawing on years of first-hand experience on the ground. Bolton illustrates how the needs of African states exceed their budgets, leaving a gap for aid to fill; how the way Western aid is delivered renders it largely ineffective; and how trade rules and globalization have worked against African development. Poverty: impossible choices A life quite ordinary -- Africa scrambled -- President for a day -- -- Aid: good intentions Where does your money go? -- Pass the hat-charity aid -- Budget or fudge it-national aid -- Interlude: gamblers required -- Airily conditioned-international aid -- Aid betrayed -- -- Trade: dusty plains and unlevel playing fields In theory -- Out of Africa -- Into Africa -- It doesn't work for you either -- -- Globalization: might and right Africa doesn't matter -- Screw you, too -- -- Change: action heroes What happens next? -- Powerless or complacent? -- Profit in virtue -- Guilt or glory -- Appendix 1: national aid donors -- Appendix 2: United Nations agencies in Africa. A long-time aid worker and diplomat offers a provocative analysis of the social and economic problems facing Africa, offering insight into how the continent's difficulties are affecting everyday western life while sharing anecdotes about the human side of African struggles. Simultaneous. An aid worker and diplomat analyzes the problems of contemporary Africa, providing anecdotes on poverty, trade, and globalization, and explores how current approaches to foreign assistance have worked to hinder development on the continent