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5 March 2010updated 24 Sep 2015 10:46am

The NS Interview: Dambisa Moyo, economist

“People need jobs and investment. There is no magic trick”

By Sophie Elmhirst

Your vision for Africa’s future is a controversial one. Do you really believe that aid is dead?
If aid were a private-sector business or a political system, it would definitely have gone by now. But here we have a system that has been going on and on and not delivering.

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