Owen abroad

Dambisa Moyo’s book, Dead Aid, has had a lot of attention in the media.

I’ll post my own, excessively long review of the book here on the blog.  In the meantime, here are some other reviews:

Broadly unsympathetic

• My review
• Adekeye Adebajo in Business Day
• Michael Clemens in Finance And Development
• David Roodman at CGD
• Briefing note by the One Campaign
• Paul Collier in The Independent
• The Economist
• Zambian Economist (highly recommended)
• Madeleine Bunting in The Guardian
• Parminder Bahra in The Times

Broadly sympathetic

• Michela Wrong in The Spectator
• Patrick French in The Sunday Times
• Matthew Rees in The Wall Street Journal
• Sonia Shah in The Nation