The White Man's Burden : Why Aid does not work

Suzy Hansen interviews William Easterly author of The White Man's Burden .In an answer to a question about aid being an effort to rectify the effects of colonialism he states "...I don't think aid is a nefarious conspiracy to keep control in countries that used to be colonies. But it is part of the kind of colonial mind-set that has persisted. Kipling's "white man's burden" saw colonials as these benign white people bringing civilization to these people. It was put in much more p.c. language and became "foreign aid," but still with rich, white people in charge thinking they knew the answers. There certainly isn't the overt racism as before, but there is paternalism...