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The Munk Debates

"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.