The cynical answer is: because it distracts attention from the trade barriers they have erected in order to protect employment in the West. These trade barriers cost Africa an estimated 500 billion dollars every year. That’s ten times the amount Africa is given in development aid. And because they secretly don’t believe that Africa is ever going to pull it together. They feel sorry for the Africans. So they buy themselves a conscience.
Dambisa Moyo, international economist, on why the West continues to give aid to Africa, despite overwhelming evidence that foreign aid contributes to world hunger.

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