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Aid to African states has been large enough to warp their politics and too small to transform their economies.

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  1. Oliver Kim

    Development economist and economic historian who writes…

    As scholars like Nicolas van de Walle have pointed out, aid can also foster an unhealthy dependency—in his coinage, many African states live in a state of “permanent crisis”, where aid is large enough to reshape (and warp) the political economy around it, but not large enough to be fundamentally transform countries’ economies.

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