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Book Launch: Yash Tandon's Ending Aid Dependence

Tuesday 4 November 2008, 17:00-18:00
At: Chatham House, 10 St James's Square, London, SW1Y 4LE
Speaker: Yash Tandon, Executive Director, South Centre, Geneva.

If you wish to attend the book launch, please register via Donald Temple.

In his new book Ending Aid Dependence, Yash Tandon reviews the possibilities for change in the architecture of aid. The author explores the extent to which many developing countries reliant on aid wish to escape dependence, and yet are constrained from doing so. Proposing that moving away from dependence should be at the top of the political agenda of all developing countries, this timely book cautions countries of the global South from falling into the aid trap and endorsing the collective colonialism of the OECD.

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Yash Tandon (2008) Ending Aid Dependence.
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Developing countries reliant on aid want to escape this dependence, and yet they appear unable to do so. This book shows how they may liberate themselves from the aid that pretends to be developmental but is not.

Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective.

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House of Hunger poetry slam in Zimbabwe

11^th January 2007

House of Hunger poetry slam in Zimbabwe The House of Hunger poetry slam held in Zimbabwe in 2006, and organised by the Pamberi Trust, showcased young artists performing inspirational work on issues from corporate power to child soldiers. This broadcast features four of the poets.

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Mandisa Mbali

6^th December 2006

Mpumpelelo South African activist Mandisa Mbali speaks out against the stranglehold pharmaceutical firms have over life-saving drugs and the need to support domestic generic production of essential medicines to stem the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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Ayian Sigal

23^rd November 2006

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28^th September 2006

Mpumpelelo Watch Miles Tendi from Zimbabwe talk about the inadequacies of aid spending by the North and the gap between promises and reality on the ground in Africa.

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