Beyond Dependence and Poverty: Rethinking U.S. Aid to Africa


 

Publication Date: June 1993

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Thomas P. Sheehy

Research Area: Economics

Keywords: Middle East

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The road to development in Africa will be long and difficult. Fortunately, many African states have enhanced their prospects for development by accepting the need for free market economic policies. The U.S. should encourage Africa's free market trend by establishing an Index of Economic Freedom for allocating development aid to Africa, and by directly aiding the emergent African private sector. An Index also would provide the diffuse and unfocused U.S. foreign aid program with a coherent strategy for disburiing U.S. foreign aid.