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Is Western Aid to Africa Working?

03/06/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Is Western Aid to Africa Working?

We discuss Western foreign aid to Africa - should there be an overhaul of how it’s done?

Last year saw a significant three percent rise in bilateral aid to Africa, according to the OECD, amounting to twenty-nine billion US dollars. But was it effective?

Some in the West challenge the concept of aid and a new book looks into how we might be able to rethink the concept altogether.

Also in this hour: the alternative football World Cup - where you can't play for your country, but you can for your "unrecognised state"

(Image: Women in South Sudan receive food aid, credit: AFP)

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