Further pronouncements on development aid from that star of the economic intelligensia, Madeleine Bunting. She was the one, you recall, who wrote a whole book around the fact that French State regulation of working hours made their workers more productive.

It is a spare, quietly
devastating picture of the precariousness of human life. Only this time
the threat is not a tsunami but a mosquito and the complicated chain of
human actions that ensures there are no doctors but quacks, no
hospitals, no drugs which work, and no nets. Nets which might protect
these children cost about £1 each – a child’s life for the cost of a
cup of tea.

From what I recall the nets cost 4-5 quid but that’s a quibble. How can you discuss the impact of malaria without discussing the way in which aid donors will not allow DDT to be used? I’m also a little confused as to how aid to Africa can be discussed without at least a brief discussion of how awful the current governments are. I guess such things don’t matter if you’re a right on type, let’s just throw money at the problem and hope some sticks eh?