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Economist Blames Aid for Africa Famine - Yahoo! News: "When aid money keeps coming, all our policy-makers do is strategize on how to get more,' said the Kenya-based director of the Inter Region Economic Network, an African think tank.
'They forget about getting their own people working to solve these very basic problems. In Africa, we look to outsiders to solve our problems, making the victim not take responsibility to change.'
Moving the aid can be nightmare in itself. Africa's good roads are few, and often pass through the front lines of civil wars. But Shikwati notes an additional problem: Even African countries that have food to spare can't easily share it because tariffs on agricultural products within sub-Saharan Africa average as high as 33 percent, compared with 12 percent on similar products imported from Europe."
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