Dambisa Moyo Interview on China
MacLean’s interview of Ms Moyo is quite interesting for its counterpoint to mainstream Western (mainly negative) portrayals of China’s resource deals in Africa. She also offers some sound advice for Canada’s relationship with China.
MacLean’s intro: Zambian-born, Oxford- and Harvard-trained economist Dambisa Moyo, 43, first rose to prominence with her bestselling 2009 polemic Dead Aid. In it she argued that development aid from rich countries to poor African nations has left the continent mired in dependency, corruption, market distortion and deeper poverty. In her new book, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the World, Moyo rings a new alarm. Only China, she believes, has realized the pressure that rising world prosperity is placing on increasingly scarce commodities, and has begun to act accordingly.