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I was intriqued with Mr Masonda's comments in respect to AID for Africa. The only difference between Africa and India is that I have never heard Indians continue to blame their circumstances on the West - certainly not in a sustained boring repetitive way that the likes of Mr Mugabe in Zimbabwe does. India's poverty is extreme and amazing but it has still defied expectations and continues to progress. I believe it was the late President of Tanzania who declared in the 1980's "if India can feed its millions, why can't Africa do likewise, after all we are richer and more resourceful...". Hmmm A tip to Africans who rely on AID - it is not AID anymore, it has become a profession for both the giver and the receiver.....

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I am missing a very close friend of mine: Mr. Richard Alibandila. I used to be with him at St. Bonaventure College at Lusaka untill 1999. from then, I lost his conct. Please, help me to find this man. My contact: +258 825717333

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Ms Moyo, am very proud of you everyday. Congratulations to you Dear for every effort you are making.

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Perhaps we should be asking the question Does this aid achieve its intended purpose? Do the maginalised benefit, if they do not Why? I Beg to differ with Dr Moyo's assertion of corruption as a laughableble matter, because it the corruption and greedness of the leaders that has brought in the inequalities to thend that even if aid is given, it is marred up with the corruption and so we dont see its results and we therfore remain underdeveloped.

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I congratulate Dr. Moyo for sparking a world debate on Aid, but would simply say, one needs to actually taste the poverty tablet first to know whether it is bitter or sweet and decide whether to spit or swallow. In other words it is only the very poor persons who know the actual magnitude of poverty inflicted pain and need for aid. Zambia and many other Sub-Sahara African countries have not yet reached an Aid-free stage (conditions not in place). Graduate School of Economics, Ryukoku University, Kyoto,Japan.

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Does Zambia a christian country until now?.Because today the all world knows about porno in says christian country that is the land of my wife and children.

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sister of marshall moyo, how is your baby sister. remember the good old days when we were at convent school, woodlands, what a long time where is namalanga and her sister lulu.

is marshall still in south and chewe and namwinga, god we convent girls have done well with guidance of the holy spirit, still remember sister dolorus, i was a juinor same class as your baby sister. greeting to marshall moyo.

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Great works and a shift in public opinion. However, I feel it matters less how much we understand a discipline without grasping its inner meaning. Development hiccups in South countries is due to a plethora of factors which factors go beyond aid. Dambisa takes up space in his book talkiing about how bad aid is, an aspect we already know at the expense of critical policy options open to LDcs. This I feel is a weakness. In fact, she just glossed over some options without critical analysis. There is need, I feel, for social commentators (especially on LDCs) to have vast knowledge of LDCs economic and political experience. This should be the genesis of any policy conception, formulation and implementation.In as much as we appreciate 'aid is dead' we will always carry this york unless we start proposing cardina, key, core policy options/alternative approaches. AND ALL THIS SHOULD BE ANCHORED ON POLITICAL WILL.

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Country of residence means country not city. The Two are different. That's why mwebapaZed mwaluchula!!!

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Well done Dambisa.

For me, this Aid thing can best be analyzed when we look at what’s happening in Zambia after the donors pulled out sponsorship to the health sector. Clearly, as a country we have no exit strategy toward self sustainability. While we appreciate that the west plundered our money back in the days, Aid (to buy bread and butter) from them is really not the solution in the long run. Zambia has potential to flourish but we obviously opt not to. While I don’t agree with everything in dead aid book, much of the information contained therein is very logical because for as long as certain Developmental and Economic fundamentals aren’t put in place (beginning with balanced trade with the west and others) we shall always need the aid. Zambia is a copper producing nation but it’s shocking that we make more money from talk time than copper and still go back to ask for aid.

As a Zambian in the Diaspora, it hurts to see that we keep crying about aid when the country has just about everything to survive on its own. Regarding resource endowment some of the first world countries we rush to for aid and to live have nothing compared to what we do in Zambia and Africa at large. All they have done is organize their house. The aid has been flowing into many African countries for years and what it there to show for it? This aid thing has been Catastrophic, reducing sovereign nations to beggars. Zambia has been a topic of case studies from SAP to HIPC which saw masses suffer untold misery and even death in certain cases and all for what? AID! People Let’s get serious. If India with a population of 1bn plus pulled out of donor dependency, why cant Africans? I know it won’t happen overnight but it’s possible. It’s about time that the people tasked with steering African governments got serious and developed serious exit strategies because this aid Fiasco has got to stop in the long run.