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Aid, Debt, and Economic Development Series: Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL6nqhyQC0o
Time 11:30
Brad Cartwright discusses structural adjustment policies and evaluation policies.
Are Poor Countries Doomed? 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8UlTygCYjo
Time 3:50
John Green discusses the three myths at the center of Bill and Melinda Gates’s 2013 annual letter: (1) Poor countries are NOT doomed to remain poor. (2) Foreign aid is NOT a waste of money. (In fact, health aid at least is an astonishingly good investment.) (3) Saving children’s lives does NOT lead to overpopulation. (In fact, decreasing infant mortality has consistently slowed population growth all over the world.)
Foreign Aid and Developing Economies, 2006.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymHvCZ98FyA
Time 1:11:51
Experts discuss whether there is a link between aid and economic growth, and what aid strategies, if any, can facilitate economic growth.
From Haiti to Vietnam, the EU contributes to the MDGs
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xewsaf_from-haiti-to-vietnam-the-eu-contri_news
Time 3:22
The EU is committed to supporting developing countries in achieving the Millennium Development Goals for example halving the proportion of people living in poverty by 2015. This video highlights the EU’s contribution to fight hunger, facilitate access to water, health and education, and to reduce the impact of climate change, in Haiti and in other developing countries.
Munk debates: Be it resolved foreign aid does more harm than good.
Lewis and Collier vs Moyo and De Soto, 2009
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8hgCeN5EwA
Time 4:35 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WClqi4Yr3Ys&feature=related
Time 6:49 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEtelIN_MvA&feature=related
Time 7:45 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBzMmggxFso&feature=related
Time 8:16 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enDmHgJC4eY&feature=related
Time 8:27
This Munk Debate explores the opportunities and hazards of foreign aid, by debating the question, “Is foreign aid to the developing countries doing more harm than good?”
Why Aid to Africa is Not Working, 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4a-FZjPreg
Time 1:01:30
At the Jepson Leadership Forum, economist Dambisa Moyo, named one of Time magazine’s most influential people in the world for 2009, discusses her book Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. In it, she unflinchingly confronts what she sees as one of the greatest myths of our time and argues that foreign aid to Africa be phased out and replaced with innovative ways to finance development and encourage fair trade.
0.7 per cent GDP by 2012: Ireland supports international aid
Time 1:57
This video supports the campaign to encourage Ireland to reaffirm its commitment to providing 0.7 per cent of its GNP to international aid.