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Impacts of aid in Africa (aid types (tied aid (conditionality and cross…

- - - - free trade
      - tight money
      - focus on primary education
      - conditionality
- - - - Sachs' Millenium Village Project (MVP) in Bonsaaso, Tanzania
        
        2001 - 2011 gold rush = case of accumulation by dispossession fuelled by speculative commodity bubble.
        
        over-run by foreign gold miners who have deprived the galamsey from their land rights.
        
        Support for Bonsaaso was withdrawn in 2012, and a new MVP was unveiled.
        
        despite being an "African success story" it sees: high levels of poverty, unemployment (or informal galamsey work), rural inequalities and foreign domination.
        
        mining industry (1986 reforms). - 85% is now controlled by foreign co.
        
        Soros philanthropic-economic conundrum.
      - philanthrocapitalism isi a "marvellous fable" that distracts from the brutal reality of capital accumulation.
    - - foreign aid can re-inforce a lack of (government) responsibility.
        
        aid through General Budget Support = increases Presidential power & corruption.
        
        bed nets for malaria
        
        requires self-empowerment and understanding.
    - - disincentive effect
  - - - BUT issues surrounding the deliverance of aid has been controversial - poverty, inequalities and unemployment still remain. - dependancy. - erodes government & indigenous responsibility.