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African Aid - Helpful or Harmful?

I stumbled across this Al-Jazeera page recently - 

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/african-aid-helpful-or-hazardous-0022175 

which posed the question of whether foreign aid is really helping the people in Africa, or hurting them.

The page includes a lot of information and related videos, the Headliner of them all being the recording of a…

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Added by The Shiznit on April 21, 2012 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

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