"Be it resolved foreign aid does more harm than good.". The debaters
are:
Dambisa Moyo, anti-foreign aid advocate and author
of
Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and
How There is a
Better Way for Africa;
Hernando de Soto, author of
The Mystery of Capital and a leading advocate for the use of
property rights to increase living standards in the developing world;
Paul
Collier, Director for the Centre for the Study of African
Economies at Oxford University and author of
The Bottom Billion: Why
the Poorest Countries are Failing and
What Can Be Done About
It; and
Stephen Lewis, Professor in Global Health
at McMaster University and former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in
Africa. His best-selling book,
Race Against Time, comprised the
2005 CBC Massey Lectures and was a finalist for the Writers' Trust
Award and the Trillium Book Award. For more information visit the Munk
Debates
website.