Foreign Aid: Dead Right or Dead Wrong? (Have your say...)

25 June 2009

Thank you to everyone who attended the IRC-UK Annual Lecture 2009. 500 people took part in a vibrant discussion on the topic "Foreign aid: dead right or dead wrong?" with our panellists (below, left to right) George Biddle, Dambisa Moyo, Sir Jeremy Greenstock (chair) and Yash Tandon at the Royal Geographical Society on 22 June.

We'll be posting a video of the event soon for those who couldn't make it, but in the meantime why not continue the discussion here, online? Let us know what you think by commenting below...

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Global financial pressures have added new urgency to the well-established debate around issues of aid effectiveness, issues which are particularly critical in the contexts where the IRC works – contexts of extreme vulnerability, war and displacement. What is the appropriate international economic response to populations in dire need?

by IRC-UK London - 30-06-09 16:32

After the talk we came up with a quote: "Aid is a moral imperative that doesn't always work."

by Bill Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 09-07-09 07:23

Why waste time and money helping people who won't help themselves? look at the experiences at Kwara Project in Nigeria (http://www.kwaraproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2445&Itemid=28) where aid hasn't been asked for and ask the question "if aid were asked and granted, when would it be right to stop?".

by John Corby - 23-07-09 10:42

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