What a continent like Africa needs is investment in economic fields that generate structures of sustained development. If the money sent is not put into production, people will continue to barely survive with external aid, but will never be able to overcome poverty furthermore, part of this money sometimes serves to perpetuate and sustain totalitarian regimes in power, because to get the resources to the population it is necessary to go through them, and a large part of the resources is lost due to corruption. The background behind all this is that the aid money in Africa is used for famine relief, medical emergencies, drinking water supplies, and other basic needs, which of course is extremely important, but they only attack the symptoms and not the cause. Do you know anyone who is worried about China? No one.' There are 1 billion Chinese living below that standard. China has a population of 1.3 billion people and only 300 million live like us (with a high standard of quality of life). She says that the victimhood of some African groups is the biggest obstacle to the continent's development '.

However, per capita income today is lower than it was in the 1970s, and more than 50% of the population (350 million people) live on less than a dollar a day, a figure that has almost doubled in two decades.' She supports her assertions with data: 'Over the past 60 years, billions of dollars in development aid have been transferred from rich countries to Africa.

The economist points out that aid is a complete disaster in political, economic, and humanitarian terms. This increases governmental instability, civil unrest, and of course, paralyzes social development. Economic growth is extremely slow, and African nations are becoming increasingly indebted, with their economies ruined by inflation. Moyo points out that while billions of dollars are received annually by Africa, its nations remain mired in misery. The main argument of the African economist's text is that the aid destined for Africa, instead of promoting economic growth, condemned the continent to poverty and continued dependence on international aid for survival. Moyo has a PhD in economics from Oxford University, a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank for a couple of years and at Goldman Sachs where she was head of economic and strategic research for sub-Saharan Africa. The Zambian economist, Dambisa Moyo, wrote a book- Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa-to denounce how the hypocrisy of political correctness did nothing but continue to impoverish the African continent through international aid.

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