Johannesburg — AID has become a way for Africans to make their problems someone else's responsibility, an African economist said to me the other day.
He was referring to the hue and cry in Africa about the G-8's failure to live up to its promise to increase aid following the recent meeting in Germany, which African leaders left with little more than a lot of talk about increased funding for health.
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