[lbo-talk] Larry Summers is no male chauvinist pig ...

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sat Jan 29 08:25:36 PST 2005


----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at mail.ngo.za>


> Instead, here's a progressive line, generally accepted in the Southern
> African economic justice movement, from a (centrist) NGO in Harare, the
> African Network on Debt and Development. Citing a World Bank study that
> acknowledges that 'a typical poor country receives 90% of GDP through Aid
> but the poorest quartile of the population consume only 4% of the GDP,'
> Afrodad's then-director Opa Kapijimpanga concluded, 'aid is a tool to
serve
> the commercial, political, economic and strategic interests of donor
> countries.'

Never said that only the amount of aid mattered. Find another strawman to burn.

-- Luke



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