For those interested in development economics, this should be worth watching. Over the last 50 years Western governments have paid out more than £400bn of tax payers' money in aid to Africa, but according to figures released by the World Bank this year, half of sub-Saharan Africans still live in extreme poverty, a figure which has not changed since 1981.Panorama
BBC 1 NI (Sky Digital Ch.141)
Monday 24th November 2008
8:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Addicted to Aid:
Reporter Sorious Samura visits Uganda and his home country of Sierra Leone to reveal how aid money is lost, stolen and frittered away. He stops at a showpiece hospital, run by a well-funded health department, that looks like a warzone - yet in the nearby car park of the Ministry of Health there are dozens of new 4x4s for ministry staff. He questions a former minister accused of stealing funds and offers his vision of how Africans can take control of their own destiny.
Further details on the show (plus a trailer)
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